Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon - Himalayan Foothill Folktales

Informationen zum Autor Kirin Narayan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist. She is author of Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching, which won the 1991 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and shared the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for Folklore. She is also author of Love, Stars and All That, a novel about South Asian Americans. Klappentext Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or 'Urmilaji.' In dialogue with Kirin Narayan, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she perceives in them. In turn, Kirin Narayan sets these tales within a larger story about the joys and ironies of undertaking research in a village that is also home to her American mother. Zusammenfassung Narayan presents 21 stories learned and told orally by one woman, Urmila Devi, in Kangra, North India. Included are stories told for worship and stories told for entertainment. It offers arguments about oral traditions and performance, as well as about North Indian families and folklore.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kirin Narayan, Kirin (Associate Professor of Anthropolog Narayan, Kirin (Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies Narayan, Kirin Sood Narayan, Narayan Kirin
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.1997
• EAN: 9780195103496
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510349-6
• Seiten: 280
• Mitarbeit: Urmila Devi Sood
• Serie: Exeter studies in history
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Anthologies, Folklore studies / Study of myth