This book is a collection of primary source material on the myths and legends of origin of the tribal people of Orissa, along with a section on the procedures of reading myths. The myths and legends presented here are all new field collections. The purpose of the book is twofold. First, it will try to correct the popular urban belief or the belief of the educated-elitist belief to be exact-that our tribal people are ignorant, uneducated and uncultur-ed and that ...
