Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth

Oring, Elliott

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“…This process of learning will lead students to understand local wisdom. In addition, teaching materials obtained from local wisdom will benefit students if teaching materials are linked based on social contexts in the community [4]. The structure of folklore can be analyzed as positive and beneficial to students.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of Legends and Folklores as Efforts to Develop Instructional Materials in High Schools

Kusmana¹,

Jaja²

2019

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Sciences, Education, and Humanities (ISSEH 2018)

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This research is aimed at obtaining appropriate teaching based on the student's cultural background to help ease their difficulties in learning short stories. Folklore has a good deed and is close to the students' life, and therefore it is suitable to be implemented as teaching material. This research gathers all folklores through interviews and documentation studies.Structures and values of folklores are analyzed qualitatively to find out the folklores based on some determined criteria. Selected folklores are applied as developed teaching material and the use of language is adapted according to 2013 Curriculum. Based on some validity tests as well as learning trials conducted by some experts and practitioners, the developed teaching materials are applicable. It can be seen from the students' enthusiasm telling their own folklores; dynamic learning activities, positive responses to comprehend, to speak, to read, and to write short stories whose ideas are developed from the folklore values, and the learning outcomes are considered effective.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of Legends and Folklores as Efforts to Develop Instructional Materials in High Schools

Kusmana¹,

Jaja²

2019

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Sciences, Education, and Humanities (ISSEH 2018)

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“…Studies of testimony – and evidence – have dealt with court cases and war victims, and more recently, with refugees, asylum seekers, and deportations in cases where attempts are made to convince others about the presence of an absence (e.g., M'charek ; Huttunen ). Testimonies were historically used in the contexts of miraculous healing and canonization (see Oring ), while the bulk of contemporary Western literature on the subject in the humanities originates in studies of the narratives of Holocaust survivors.…”

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confidence: 99%

New Practices of Cultural Truth Making: Evidence Work in Negotiations with State Authorities

Virtanen

Honkasalo

2020

Anthropol of Consciousness

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This article looks at negotiations with state authorities and the evidentiary criteria they create in culturally contrasting contexts when phenomena deal with elements that for the dominant society are conceptualized as “supernatural.” We draw from the level of experiences of other‐than‐human beings, especially spirits and “ungraspable” presences, as social practices in and of themselves as well as acts of mobilizing those which are meaningful for knowledge production in Indigenous Amazonia and North European contexts. Our two cases show how in state territorial protection debates and health services, visibility, quantification, measurability, Euro‐American dominant, mainly binary, and bounded concepts are employed to create the grounds of validity. Yet, for actual individual or collective experiences, new types of evidence work can emerge in collaborations. Thus, this article sheds light on the needs for contextual and communicative actions to overcome contrasting onto‐epistemologies in the context of the state.

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“…While there is a growing body of literature on contemporary legends (Oring 1990(Oring , 2008Dégh 1991Dégh , 1996Bennett & Smith 1996;Campion-Vincent & Renard 2002;Bennett 2005;Fine & Campion-Vincent & Heath 2005;Bonhomme 2009;Fine & Ellis 2010;etc. ), there is still no consensus among researchers either on the term to be used (contemporary, modern or urban legends, myths, rumours, foaf tales, legendry, etc.)…”

Section: Legends and The Question Of Truthmentioning

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“…But this approach is challenged by the fact that legends do not only "make a claim about the truth of an event" (Oring 2008: 128) -they also use a specific rhetoric and different tropes to support these claims, and mobilise a "rhetoric of truth" (Oring 2008).…”

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Women-Snipers from Chechnya to Ukraine: A Post-Soviet War Legend

Régamey¹

2017

FEJF

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Among the rumours that circulated in the Russian army in Chechnya in the first decade of the twenty-first century, one of the most widespread involved women-snipers, former biathlon champions from the Baltic states, who allegedly fought alongside Chechen militants. More than ten years later, the rumour surfaced once again in Ukraine. This article explores the different aspects of a war legend that was born among soldiers, was embodied in fiction and popular culture, and used in official propaganda. It shows that the focus on Baltic mercenaries allows to present Russia simultaneously as the successor of the Soviet Union fighting against fascism, and as a state besieged by Islamic terrorism and American expansionism. The fact that women served as snipers in the Soviet army in the Second World War may give to the legend its particular post-Soviet characteristics, but the strength of the legend comes also from its embodying the fear of threatened masculinities. The conclusion reflects on the possible impact of the legend for civilians in areas torn by war, and on the ethical issue it raises for the researcher.

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Legendry and the Rhetoric of Truth

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Study of Legends and Folklores as Efforts to Develop Instructional Materials in High Schools

Study of Legends and Folklores as Efforts to Develop Instructional Materials in High Schools

New Practices of Cultural Truth Making: Evidence Work in Negotiations with State Authorities

Women-Snipers from Chechnya to Ukraine: A Post-Soviet War Legend

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