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ABSTRACT: This study seeks to collect, record, translate, analyze, and preserve the oral narratives of the Blaans in Little Baguio, Malita, Davao del Sur, and to draw out their values and to present their educational implications. More particularly, it aims to answer the following questions: 1). Who are the Blaans of Little Baguio, Malita, Davao del Sur?; 2. What are the oral narratives do the Blaans have?; 3). What are the vlaues found in the collected Blaan oral narratives?; 4). What are the educational implications may be derived from these narratives?. This study was conducted in Little Baguio, Malita, Davao del Sur. There were two types of informants involved in this research: a). those who told the background of the Blaans and the elders of the tribe; 2). Those Blaans who narrated the oral narratives in their own language. Translator.guide was also contacted to assist in the data gathering in the said Barangay. Trilingual translator were asked were asked to transcribe and translate the oral narratives to Blaan and Cebuano languages. THe researcher translated the Cebuano text to English. There were two types of data that were gathered: the lifestyles and background information of the Blaans and their oral narratives. Translation was done by the trilingual translators using the Meaning-based Translation Theory of Larson (1984). This theory known as Idionatic Translation or thought-for-thought translation wherein the meaning of the orginal is translated into forms which most accurately and naturally preserve the meaning of the original form. Thirty folk narratives were collected from the Blaans. These narratives were seven myths, thirteen legends, and ten folks. The myths were classified as cosmogony, and establishment of natural order, world calamity, and acquisition of culture. The collected legends were origin of water and land features, origin of animals and plants, pourquio legends, plant characteristics, place name legend, and a legend about supernatural being....

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Source Institution	Ateneo de Davao University
Unit	Social Science
Authors	Organiza, Maria Vincent T.
Page Count	1
Place of Publication	Davao City
Original Publication Date	March 1, 2006
Tags	Dissertations, Folklore

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