The Trials &amp; Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

Madland, Helga; Zipes, Jack

doi:10.2307/328021

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“…However, when we did not have either printing systems or systematic education systems, animal folktales may have played the role of obtaining and sharing animal knowledge. From an early age, children learn about animals, and although they rarely observe real animals (such as wolves or lions), children are aware that wolves are dangerous carnivores (e.g., from folk tales such as 'Little Red Riding Hood'), and this is because of the repetitive motif that appears in folktales [3,23,44].…”

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Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales

Nakawake

Sato

2019

Palgrave Commun

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Cultural learning is a unique human capacity essential for a wide range of adaptations.Researchers have argued that folktales have the pedagogical function of transmitting the essential information for the environment. The most important knowledge for foraging and pastoral society is folk-zoological knowledge, such as the predator-prey relationship among wild animals, or between wild and domesticated animals. Here, we analysed the descriptions of the 382 animal folktales using the natural language processing method and descriptive statistics listed in a worldwide tale-type index (Aarne-Thompson-Uther type index). Our analyses suggested that first, the predator-prey relationship frequently appeared in a co-occurrent animal pair within a folktale (e.g., cat and mouse or wolf and pig), and second, the motif of 'deception', describing the antagonistic behaviour among animals, appeared relatively higher in 'wild and domestic animals' and 'wild animals' than other types. Furthermore, the motif of 'deception' appeared more frequently in pairs, corresponding to the predator-prey relationship. These results corresponded with the hypothesis that the combination of animal characters and what happens in stories represented relationships in the real world. The present study demonstrated that the combination of quantitative methods and qualitative data broaden our understanding of the evolutionary aspects of human cultures. Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales 1.

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Section: Other Motifsmentioning

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Systematic quantitative analyses reveal the folk-zoological knowledge embedded in folktales

Nakawake

Sato

2019

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“…While difficult to identify the origins of the oral tale, Bettelheim (1989) Madland (1984), Whereas in the oral tradition preceding Perrault the young heroine was a healthy, self-confident peasant girl quite capable of taking care of herself and the wolf, the dominant versions today are those by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, both of which stress obedience and the regulation of female sexuality" (p. 278). The versions of this tale by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm became the dominant versions we know today despite "some radical twentieth-century adaptations that include Thurber's brief anecdote and its memorable concluding moral (after the young heroine has shot the wolf with her automatic), 'It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be'" (Madland, 1984, p. 278).…”

Section: History Of Little Red Riding Hoodmentioning

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An Analysis of Little Red Riding Hood Storybooks in the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection

Pittman¹

2012

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“…Red Riding Hood to the sixteenth and seventeenth century witch persecutions in France (1995, p. 769). Darnton (1984) Madland (1984), Whereas in the oral tradition preceding Perrault the young heroine was a healthy, self-confident peasant girl quite capable of taking care of herself and the wolf, the dominant versions today are those by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, both of which stress obedience and the regulation of female sexuality" (p. 278). The versions of this tale by Perrault and the Brothers Grimm became the dominant versions we know today despite "some radical twentieth-century adaptations that include Thurber's brief anecdote and its memorable concluding moral (after the young heroine has shot the wolf with her automatic), 'It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be'" (Madland, 1984, p. 278).…”

Section: Chase and Teasley Traced The Oral Tradition Of Littlementioning

confidence: 99%