Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.
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TextSeries: Myth and poetics | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1996Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (424 pages): illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- 9781501722875
- Festivals folkloriques -- Inde
- Femmes -- Inde -- Chattisagarh -- Folklore
- Folklore -- Inde -- Chattisagarh (Inde)
- Vrouwen
- Volkscultuur
- Women
- Manners and customs
- Folklore -- Performance
- Folklore
- Folklore -- Interpretation
- Folklore -- Inde -- Chhattīsgarh
- Folklore -- Performance
- Women -- India -- Chhattīsgarh -- Folklore
- Folklore -- India -- Chhattīsgarh
- Chattisagarh (Inde) -- Moeurs et coutumes
- India -- Chhattīsgarh
- Chhattīsgarh (India) -- Social life and customs
Foreword / by Gregory Nagy -- Introduction : region, repertoire, and genre -- Soaking the goddess, celebrating friendship : Bhojalī -- Brave daughters, bound kings : a female tradition of reversal : Ḍālkhāī -- Land of wealth, land of famine : the "Parrot dance" in ritual and narrative : Suā Nāc -- Joining verse to verse : professional storytelling and individual creativity : Kathānī Kūhā -- "This is our story" : a Chhattisgarhi epic : Candainī -- Paṇḍvānī heroines, Chhattisgarhi daughters : Paṇḍvānī -- Conclusion: shifting boundaries of genre and community -- The Song of Subanbali -- Kathānī Kūhā : of friendship, love, and memory -- Sample transcriptions of performance texts.
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