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Products of contexts and instances these interviews are nonetheless ultimately artifacts of reflections on what it means to do folklore or to be engaged in the broad field of culture. Conjuring the promise of personal histories intersecting with national histories and disciplinary engagements of their time these interviews chart out an alternative cartography of the discipline. Set in the mode of personal narratives public programming, engagement with other ...
Contents: Editor's note. Articles: 1. Malki and Keema - a Panihari song/Heda Jason. 2. Fieldwork report: performance of the Prahaladha myth in Tamilnadu/Balaji Srinivasan and Gandhi. 3. The curse and absolution: a study on the role of origin myths among the nomads with special reference to boom-boom Maattukkaarar Community/A. Dhananjayan. 4. The drama of folklore: stories as teachers/Daniel A. Kelin. 5. 100 years of Thakurmar Jhuli (Grandmother's bag of tales): ...
Nineteen seminal papers on various aspects of Indian folklore written by eminent scholars are collected together here in a volume. Exploring the way folklore organizes itself in different societal contexts in India is the focus of the different scholars presented here. Divided into easy sections, this book organizes complex thoughts on Indian folklore in an accessible format useful for students, scholars and lay public. While Jawaharlal Handoo, Arupjyoti Saikia ...
National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, registered in Chennai dedicated to the promotion of Indian folklore research, education, training, networking and publication. The aim of the centre is to integrate scholarship with activism, aesthetic appreciation with community development, comparative folklore studies with cultural diversities and identities, dissemination of information with multi-disciplinary dialogues, ...