Proverbs and Narratives: An inherited knowledge system of child and infant rearing and caring in rural cultural Setting

Md. Abdur Rahman and Asif Ekbal Arif

International Journal of Science and Business, 2020, vol. 4, issue 1, 151-160

Abstract: This paper has been explored on ‘Proverbs and Narratives: An inherited knowledge system of child and infant rearing and caring in rural cultural Setting’. This study has investigated the pattern of the knowledge system of rearing and caring of infants and young children as focal point of view where their parents and relatives share the knowledge on infants and child care from the oral literature such as proverbs and narratives to procreate infants and child. The modern biomedical and modern knowledge system spread various propagandas by stating folk wisdom as useless and irrelevant in the perspective of modern age of scientific rationality. The global cultural flows of infants and young child care occupy almost every parts of the world through electronic media, western academicians and the medical industry as a whole. This study has basically started to its journey with the aim of interpreting proverbs and narratives as insightful thoughts of folk wisdom which are holistically applied for the procreation of infants and young children.

Keywords: Proverbs; Narratives; Culture; Folk wisdom; Child and Infant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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