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Mondays on the dark night of the moon : Himalayan foothill folktales / Kirin Narayan in collaboration with Urmila Devi Sood.
Van Pelt Library GR305.5.K25 N37 1997
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LIBRA GR305.5.K25 N37 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Narayan, Kirin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--India--Kāngra (District).
- Folklore.
- India--Kāngra (District).
- Kāngra (India : District)--Social life and customs.
- Kāngra (India : District).
- India--Religion.
- India.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 262 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Oral tales establish relationships between storytellers and their listeners. Yet most printed collections of folktales contain only stories, stripped of the human contexts in which they are told. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or 'Urmilaji.' In dialogue with Kirin Narayan, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she perceives in them. In turn, Kirin Narayan sets these tales within a larger story about the joys and ironies of undertaking research in a village that is also home to her American mother.
- Contents:
- Part I Women's Ritual Tales
- Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon 25
- 1. Across the Seven Seas 27
- The Five Days of Fasting 39
- 2. Daughter, My Little Bread! 41
- 3. First Sour, then Sweet 50
- 4. The Daughter-in-Law With No Groom 59
- 5. The Frog Groom 64
- 6. The Fragrant Melon 70
- 7. Under the Berry Bush 79
- 8. The Female Weevil Who Fasted 88
- 9. The Dog-Girl 95
- 10. The Skein Woman 101
- The Thunder Thread 107
- 11. The Twelve Years of Affliction 109
- 12. Earth into Gold 125
- Part II Winter Tales
- Divining Destiny and Rebirth 133
- 13. In the Court of Destiny 135
- 14. The Floating Flower 147
- 15. Heaven and Hell 154
- 16. The Two Gems 159
- Treachery, Separation, and Reunion 169
- 17. The Astrologers' Treachery 171
- 18. The Devouring Demoness 178
- 19. Love Like Salt 189
- 20. Fair with Freckles 193
- 21. The Girl Who Went on Quests 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262).
- ISBN:
- 0195103483
- 0195103491
- OCLC:
- 34878938
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