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

Klappentext Here are the twenty-one stories that Urmilaji told. On her instruction, I have divided the stories into two broad sets: tales associated with various women's rituals and tales for entertainment on long, cold winter nights. 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.

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• Authors: Kirin Narayan, Kirin (Associate Professor of Anthropolog Narayan, Kirin (Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies Narayan, Kirin Sood Narayan, Narayan Kirin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.1997
• EAN: 9780195103489
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510348-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Assisted by: Urmila Devi Sood
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Folklore, myths & legends, Literary studies: general, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)