Folklore, public sphere and civil society: the case of the marginalized / Jawarhalal Handoo -- The text-study in folk-epics of Western India / Hasu Yajnik -- Folk ballad of Nepali Gandharva: past, present and future / Kusumakar Neupane -- Ethnic identity, folk epics and internationalization of knowledge production / Purushottama Bilimale -- A multi facet study on 'Dhanujatra' of Odisha / Kailash Pattanaik & Giribala Mohanty -- Oral poetry, ballads and folk performers / Prakash Khandge -- Cruel step-mother and victimised children: a comparative study of the variants in a Manipuri folktale / Pragya Moirangthem -- Taki Parab: revisiting the rituals of a shadow-human sacrifice / Samuel Dani -- Serpent worship among the Meiteis of Manipur / Chirom Rajketan -- Oral history and the narrative of goddess panthoibi in the Meitei community / L. Birgita Devi -- Folk narratives and oral history: World War II, the ultimatum, and a group of people / Mrinal Medhi -- Vernacular religion of the Meiteis: women turned goddesses / S. Sanatombi -- Folktakkes as repository of children's literature / Kh. Ranibala Devi -- The folklore of black saints of Gujarat: syncretism and identity politics / Karan Singh --Pena: folk instrument of Meteis ballad singer of Manipur / Ng. Ekashini Devi -- The lore of traditional house construction of the Meiteis: a study of the world view / M. Mani Meitei -- Shah-Jo-Risalo: a Sufi narrative of Singh-Kutch / Mahendra Doshi.
Summary:
Transcript of papers on 39th Session (Conference) of Indian Folklore Congress (IFC) presented at Postgraduate Department of Gujarati (Folk and Indigenous Studies), N.S. Patel Arts College, Anand, Gujarat on October 9-11, 2015.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1019842473
LCCN:
2017347088
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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