A report from the BBC's Middle East website looks at the tradition of storytelling and the role of the professional storyteller in the Middle East, and how history (ancient and modern) as well as contemporary events such as the Arab Spring are being adapted by the storytellers.
Click HERE to read the report
The report also includes videos of modern professional storytellers performing
But will the traditional art survive in competition with modern technology?
Showing posts with label oral history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oral history. Show all posts
Friday, 7 October 2011
Friday, 5 August 2011
Ethnology Museums and the issue of exhibiting human remains
In colonial times, human remains were routinely collected by archaeologists and anthropologists and displayed in ethnology museums - this article from the Deutsche Welle website examines this issue in conjunction with a new exhibition at Vienna's Ethnology Museum which explores the context and legacy of the work of Hans Liechtenecker in Namibia in 1931 and his "Archive of Dying Races" that displayed human remains and featured oral recordings.
The Deutsche Welle article also looks at cases involving Australian Aborigine and Naga remains that have come to be displayed in museums
The Deutsche Welle article also looks at cases involving Australian Aborigine and Naga remains that have come to be displayed in museums
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