BDB Bertsolaritzaren datu-basea

This collection assembles significant research papers on the concept of orality, theoretical approaches, and oral traditions juxtaposed with writing, culture, and folklore. Many of the essays also deal with issues of gender in oral cultures like those of Northeast India. The collection serves as an introduction to the varied ways in which the analysis of oral traditions has revitalized the quest for meanings in orality

Foreword … vii
Acknowledgements …ix
Preface …xi
Tradition, language and continuity: endangered languages and oral traditions …1
John Zemke
The quest for meanings in folklore and belief narrative studies (with special reference to assam) …22
Ülo Valk
Orality: the quest for meaning …38
Kailash C. Baral
“Little red riding hood in different itineraries: female characters in argentinean folk narrative” …46
Maria Inés Palleiro
Folklore as a mode of world transformation: a new paradigm of folklore studies in Thailand …74
Onusa Suwanpratest
Orality and the quest for truth in the Thai Forest tradition …84
Dipti Visuddhangkoon
Oral History in North East India …103
Salam Irene
Women narratives …112
Rashmi Narzary
Legal instruments to combat witch-hunting …121
Shyamal Prasad Saikia
Tracing lost tunes of Manipur …137
Ksh, Premchandra Singh
The tribal heritage: quest for ‘meaning’ in Bodo folk dances …149
Deepak Basumatary
Legends in Bodo historiography …167
Jeetumoni Basumatary
The oral-literary transition: Bharath: an epica of the Dungri Bhil …175
Jyoti Brahma and BhaskarJyotiGogoi
A study of a Bobo urban leyend ‘Sakondra’ …185
Arnan Basumatary
The modern day witch-hunt in the Kokrajhar district …200
Tamsin Aftab
Customary law and gender relations: a study o fits impact on the women in north-east India …218
Bhanuprabha Brahma
Correlating magic and witchcraft with the divine: a study of Paulo Coelho’s works …232
Gitanjali Baro
Traditional world-view of the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh and the poetry of Mamamng Dai: a parallel reading …240
Farina Basumatary
The african world and the conitnuum of conquest: an analysis of things fall apart and a grain of wheat …250
Debojyoti Biswas
Exploring gender-relations in the post-partition: women narratives of Bengal (1947-’57) …267
Debarati Chakraborty
Status of Khasi women in Lhasi traditional system: its continuity and change …280
Armstrong Swer
Khasi megalithic culture: a study from gender perspective …289
Streamlet Dkhar
Status of Garo women of Meghalaya: its past and present …296
Mothis M. Sangma
Oral traditions in the community of the Mizos …305
Laltluangliana Khiangte