Yulius Yogi kneels under the forest canopy here on the island of Borneo, surveying land he plans to reclaim for his Dayak ...

Every two weeks, a language is at risk of disappearing. According to the UN, at least 50% of the 7,000 different languages ...

ORAL TRADITIONS EVOLVE INTO GOSPELS We have to remember that Jesus died around 30. For 40 years, there's no written gospel of his life, until after the revolt. During that time, we have very ...

James Beckwourth. Photo via UCLA The first Black person known to set foot in Utah was a mountain man whose gift for telling ...

This weekend's drop in temperature is expected to make conditions too slick in Sleeping Bear's historic district.

But the “proto-Talmudic” tradition was “transmitted orally for centuries.” It seems that Jesus was familiar with many oral ideas, later written down. This oral tradition is analogous to ...

A few years after his travels, Parfitt teamed up with a group from The Center for Genetic Anthropology at University College London to look for a genetic counterpart to the Lemba's oral tradition ...

The Dastangoi Collective returns to the city for a four-day festival that celebrates their journey towards reinventing the ...

Helping to bring them to North American audiences is an honor.” “Leila and the Wolves” draws on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern to combine fictional drama, archival footage, and ...

Pantun is a form of Malay verse used to express intricate ideas and emotions. It is the most widespread oral form in maritime Southeast Asia and has been used in many parts of the region for at least ...

“Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata overthrew Soumaora Kante, he appointed the Kouyaté family to protect the balafon. Played with mallets, the balafon is made up of wooden slats and ...