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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Dr. Tadesse Jaleta Jirata | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-04-09T13:48:45Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-04-09T13:48:45Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ecde.aau.edu.et/jspui/handle/123456789/546 | - |
| dc.description | This is a transcript of riddling performed by Uddessa (a ten-year-old boy) and Elema (an eleven-year-old boy) and demonstrates one of the popular play arts in the repertoire of the Guji people’s oral tradition (Beriso2000). The Guji people have a rich oral tradition that includesoduu duri (myth and legend), duri duri (folktales), hibboo(riddles), mammassa gababa(proverbs) and weedduu(folksongs). Of these forms of oral tradition, the proverb, the myth and the legend are regarded as arts of communication for adults, whereas the folktale and the riddle are forms that constitute children’s play practices. The folktale is told by adults to children as well as by children to children. Parents perceive this process as a means of knowledge transmission, whereas for children it is a form of play. However, the riddle is performed and transferred between children alone. In addition to these oral arts, Guji children playgiricha(a stone-throwing game like jacks), duqo(a ‘count and capture’ game known elsewhere as mancala) and waatolcha (impressions), but attribute great significance to riddling and the processes of interrogation and interpretation that it involves. For example, when I asked Uddessa and Elema about the type of play practice they like to play every day, both of them responded that they play riddling. It is the game every child know and enjoys, they said. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This is a transcript of riddling performed by Uddessa (a ten-year-old boy) and Elema (an eleven-year-old boy) and demonstrates one of the popular play arts in the repertoire of the Guji people’s oral tradition | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Individual Researcher | en_US |
| dc.subject | Research Report | en_US |
| dc.title | Learning Through Play: An Ethnographic Study Of Children’s Riddling In Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Research report/ journal article, book/ proceeding chapter, | |
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