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

by Kirin Narayan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195103491
• ISBN13: 9780195103496
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"