Tribal Myths & Legends of Orissa: The Story of Origins
Tripathy, Biyotkesh & Basa, Kishor K.
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Book ID : 29052
ISBN-10 : 81-7702-100-1 / 8177021001
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2005
Edition :
Language : English
xviii, 292p., 58 Col. Illus., Bib., Index, 29 cm. (Intangible Cultural Heritage of India-1)
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This book is a collection of primary source material on the myths and legends of origin of the tribal people of Orissa, along with a section on the procedures of reading myths. The myths and legends presented here are all new field collections. The purpose of the book is twofold. First, it will try to correct the pouplar urban belief or the belief of the educated-elitist belief to be exact that our tribal people are igonarant, uneducated and uncultured and that the little "culture etc." they have is the gift of the "mainstream" civilization. And second, it will attempt to bring out the richness of tribal culture, carried in their myths and legends, and to establish its antiquity in the context of the prime civilization of the world: the Mesopotaminan, the Babylonian, the Hindu, the Egyptian, the Greek and the Judeo-Christian. The book introduces a competitive readings to evaluate degrees of being civilized, if such things are possible.
