📚 Research can uncover stories that even experts never had the chance to find.
🌍 In this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast special series #VanishingCulture, African folklorist Laura Gibbs explains how the Internet Archive's full-text search helped her uncover dozens of versions of a folktale, including one published in an early 1900s issue of Good Housekeeping that had escaped generations of scholarship.
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https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/vanishing-culture-4-keeping-african-folktales-alive-with-helen-nde-laura-gibbs
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