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Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (Exeter
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Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (Exeter Studies in History) Paperback - 1997

by Narayan, Kirin

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  • Title Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (Exeter Studies in History)
  • Author Narayan, Kirin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press USA, Oxford
  • Date 1997-06-19
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780195103496
  • ISBN 9780195103496 / 0195103491
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.24 x 0.73 in (23.32 x 15.85 x 1.85 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects India - Religion, Folklore - India - Kangra (District)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-27891
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.209

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From the rear cover

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. In this innovative book, Indian-American anthropologist Kirin Narayan reproduces twenty-one folktales narrated in a mountain dialect by a middle-aged Indian village woman, Urmila Devi Sood, or 'Urmilaji.' In dialogue with Kirin Narayan, Urmilaji Sood supplements her tales with interpretations of the wisdom that she perceives in them. In turn, Kirin Narayan sets these tales within a larger story about the joys and ironies of undertaking research in a village that is also home to her American mother.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 05/01/1997, Page 114

About the author

Kirin Narayan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is an anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist. She is author of Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching, which won the 1991 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing and shared the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for Folklore. She is also author of Love, Stars and All That, a novel about South Asian Americans.

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