Among the PALMs1

Born out of the convergence of intellectual traditions and owning a borrowing capacity analogous to the one that engenders creole languages, the study of folklore, or folkloristics, claims the right to adapt and remodel political, psychological, and anthropological insights, not only for itself but for the humanities disciplines of philosophy, art, literature, and music (the “PALM” disciplines). Performance-based folkloristics looks like a new blend, or network, of elements from several of those. What looks like poaching, which is a common practice for folksong and folk narrative, can be examined in the PALM disciplines under names like intertextuality and plagiarism. Nation-oriented traditions of folklore study have convergence, borrowing, and remodeling in their history which are also discoverable in other disciplines. Linguistic and cultural creolization—what happens when people of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds are forced together to learn from one another—lies at the center of folklore; its study opens paths for research in all humanities fields. The study of folklore, while remaining marginal in universities, is undergoing a self-transformation which should lead to the acceptance of its methods and findings in the PALM disciplines

African Linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic Countries

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La littérature orale africaine. Croissance et physionomie d'une discipline d'après un recensement bibliographique.

V. Görög & V. Karady—African Oral Literature. A presentation and interpretation of statistical data relating to researches on oral literature in Europe, Africa and the United States. The figures show a rapid growth since 1960, correlative with the professionalization of African studies and their integration into academie institutions. The study of oral literature tends to become a subject by itself, as distinguished from anthropology and linguistics. Comparative tables give data on dates, places and languages of publication, and on the genres described. [pp. 579-588]Görög Veronika, Karady Victor. La littérature orale africaine. Croissance et physionomie d'une discipline d'après un recensement bibliographique.. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 19, n°73-76, 1979. Gens et paroles d'Afrique. Écrits pour Denise Paulme. pp. 579-588

Bibliographie annotée: Littérature orale d’Afrique noire

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African Linguistics in Asia and Australia

Asian and Australian institutions with a research focus on African languages are of fairly recent vintage. Japan has a strong academic infrastructure devoted to African linguistics, based in several universities and research centres. China looks back more than 50 years of interest in teaching Swahili and other major African languages, recently broadening the scope to encompass other issues of linguistic interest. In South Korea, teaching Swahili was also the precursor of more general African linguistics, allowing for regional specializations of researchers. In Australia, academic interest emerges with the increasing presence of experts on African languages and linguistics in the country