Oral lore is tradition and culture passed down through storytelling from one generation to another. Yellow ribbons as symbols of absent loved ones have been present in oral tradition since the Civil War...
The engraved ochre and ostrich eggshell fragments provide a unique window into early symbolic traditions of Homo sapiens and how they evolved over a period of more than 30,000 years.
On June 10th 1829 the very first of now legendary annual boat races of Oxford and Cambridge on the river Thames took place. The race came about because two friends from Harrow School, Charles Wordsworth (nephew of the poet William Wordsworth), of Christ Church College, Oxford, and Charles Merrivale of St. John’s, Cambridge, met during the vacation in Cambridge, where Wordsworth’s father was master of Trinity. Wordsworth went rowing on the river Cam, and the two school fellows decided to set up a challenge.
Die erfundene Tradition, Moderation: Ursula Nusser, SWR2 Forum vom 18.12.2009. Es diskutieren die Literaturwissenschaftler: Prof. Dr. Dieter Borchmeyer - Universität Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Lauer - Universität Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Steffen Martus - Universität Kiel
Old men of the Mudburra and Jingili tribes make boomerangs in the traditional way. Shot around Elliott, NT in 1988 and edited on-site with a crew of young me...