Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra
What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8931455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarali Gintsburg (0000-0003-2962-9534, Twitter (United States), corresponding author), Leonid Kogan (0000-0002-1195-6636, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 132 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 390-411 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2021.1905381 |
| OpenAlex | W3214981563 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article invites the reader to revisit the ancient and universal genre of the lullaby. We start by pointing out that the lullaby has almost never been studied in its natural settings: instead, it is often approached exclusively as a heavily proofread literary text stripped from its context. Further, we focus on tendána, a lullaby from the island of Soqotra. The tendánas used for our analysis were collected from a largely preliterate, non-media-exposed culture and in natural settings. By running a comparison between tendánas and lullabies from a number of other cultures, we conclude that, although there are a number of similarities between them, tendánas also have several unique traits, among them a different sense of safety and danger, only sporadic use of onomatopoetic vocabulary, and an absence of cumulative and counting elements
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |