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Say to the sun, "don't rise," and to the moon, "don't set" : two oral narratives from the countryside of Maharashtra /
Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional cultural life of its region, but als...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Marathi |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional cultural life of its region, but also a treasure of world literature. This volume presents translations of two lively and well-crafted examples of the ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of Dhangars. The two ovis in the volume narrate the stories of Biroba and Dhuloba, two of these shepherds'' most important gods. Each of the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 613 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199357659 019935765X |