Al Ramsawack is a writer, artist and producer of folk-tales. A retired teacher, he is also a master of the art of story-telling.

Despite the recent attention given to moral character in moral psychology and moral philosophy, there is little evidence on how the folk concept of character is structured. Virtue ethics literature suggests a number of ...

Background: Not long ago Eugene Hunn suggested using a combination of cognitive, linguistic, ecological and evolutionary theories in order to account for the dynamic character of ethnoecology in the study of folk classification ...

The aim of this chapter is to inquire into the discursive construction of corporality in oral narratives collected in Argentinean contexts, in an intertexual comparison with European ones. I give priority the semiotics of ...

This Master’s Degree dissertation aims at presenting a structure and thematic analysis of the narratives from South-African Folk-Tales (1910), by the South African writer James A. Honey, through a perspective which considers ...

This research takes a look at the eight documentaries directed by Paulo Gil Soares between 1960 and 1970 in the experience that became known today as Caravana Farkas, all of them made in northeastern Brazil: Memória do ...

In this paper I argue that attributions of certain cognitive abilities to some animal species, based on inter-species empathy, are supported on a presupposition according to which those animal species are minded creatures. ...