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This collection of essays emphasises on the depth and intricacy of functions and innovative acts inherent in folklore. It focuses on the current trends of folklore scholarship in an attempt to show that human behaviour and cultural expression can be extracted and synthesised from verbal data as well as artifacts that form the folklore culture of a people. With examples from different religious and cultural traditions that involve references to the Ramayana, ...
Contents: I. The framework: 1. Introduction/Henry Glassie and Firoz Mahmud. 2. Living traditions: a historical background/Firoz Mahmud. 3. Traditional art: a theory for practice/Henry Glassie. 4. Traditional art: a project in Bangladesh/Henry Glassie. 5. Traditional crafts: their history, decline or development/Firoz Mahmud. II. Living traditions in clay: 6. The potter's art/Firoz Mahmud. 7. Terracotta/Firoz Mahmud. III. Living traditions in metal: 8. Metal and ...