Titre: CLASSIFYING TALES: REMARKS TO INDEXES AND SYSTEMS OF ORDERING Auteur:Uther, Hans-Jörg Sujet:Anthropology ; Classification ; Documentation ; Distributiondiffusion of Folktales ; Folktale ; Historicgeographic Method ; Motif Catalogue ; Tale Type ; Type Catalogue ; Anthropology Description:
The paper deals with the historical and recent situation in classifying international folk tales and gives an overview of new developments, for example new catalogs for types and motifs. From the outset up to date, folk narrative researchers have been creating systems for ordering large masses of tale material according to genres, actors and incidents. The concentration on oral traditions, however, has largely neglected the important literary history of many tales. It was necessary to include such information into the new international catalog ATU (Aarne/Thompson/Uther). The concept of tale type and here must be understood to be flexible. It is not a constant unit of measure or a way to refer to lifeless material from the past. Instead, as part of a greater dynamic, it is adaptable, and can be integrated into new thematic compositions and media. Some former catalog makers also had used the system of numbers for expansion beyond number 2400 in order to describe other genres such...
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Narodna umjetnost, 2009, Vol.46(1), pp.15-32
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0547-2504 (ISSN); 1848-865X (E-ISSN)
Titre: Nový medzinárodný katalóg rozprávkových látok (ATU) Auteur:Uther, Hans-Jörg Sujet:Language Studies ; International Folktale Typology ; Classification ; Bibliography ; Tale Types ; Motifs ; Variants ; Sources ; Chronology ; Diffusion ; Languages & Literatures Description:
The author of the new international catalogue of folk-tale types presents detailed information on his method in compiling, arranging and structuring the work in which all known international folk-tale themes and motifs are arranged according to the numeric classification. Providing new information, the catalogue is a continuation of the earlier folk-tale theme systematics introduced by Annti Aarne and Stith Thompson. The present paper is a translation from German
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Slavica Slovaca, 2005, Vol.40(1), pp.68-74
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0037-6787 (ISSN); 1336-2364 (E-ISSN)