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

Sood, Urmila Devi; Narayan, Kirin

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ISBN 10: 0195103491 ISBN 13: 9780195103496

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press USA, 1997

Riassunto

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. In the process of recounting the stories, Narayan brings to life her friendship with the storyteller, and also offers important arguments about oral traditions and performance, as well as about North Indian families and folklore.

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L'autore:

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 ofStorytellers, 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 ofLove, Stars and All That, a novel about South Asian Americans.

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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. In the process of recounting the stories, Narayan brings to life her friendship with the storyteller, and also offers arguments about oral traditions and performance, as well as about North Indian families and folklore. This is aimed at students of South Asian religion and folklore.

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• Editore: Oxford University Press USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195103491
• ISBN 13: 9780195103496
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288