Lulling Babies to Sleep in Soqotra

What Can We Learn from the Soqotri Lullaby

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ID8931455
AutoresSarali Gintsburg (0000-0003-2962-9534, Twitter (United States), autor correspondente), Leonid Kogan (0000-0002-1195-6636, Twitter (United States))
Ano2021
Volume132
Fascículo4
Páginas390-411
Data de publicação2021-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFolklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0015587x.2021.1905381
OpenAlexW3214981563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas29

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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