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Paperback Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales Book

ISBN: 0195103491

ISBN13: 9780195103496

Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales

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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. If storytellers are mentioned at all, they are rarely consulted about what meanings they see in their tales. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged...

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