Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts
Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts Home Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts By Craig J. Reynolds. 2006. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 376 pages. ISBN: 0-295-98610-7 (softcover). Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra, Independent Scholar [Review length: 1305 words • Review posted on […]
Indian Folktales from Mauritius
Indian Folktales from Mauritius Home Indian Folktales from Mauritius Translated by Dawood Auleear and Lee Haring. Edited by Dawood Auleear and Lee Haring. 2006. Nungambakkam: National Folklore Support Centre. 116 pages. ISBN: 81-901481-7-6 (soft cover). Reviewed by Mahendra K. Mishra, Independent Scholar [Review length: 917 words • Review posted on October 10, 2007 In Journal […]
Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess
Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess Home Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess Stories about Posts: Vedic Variations Around the Hindu Goddess By Madeleine Biardeau. Translated by Alf Hiltebeitel, Marie-Louise Reiniche, and James Walker. Edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Marie-Louise Reiniche. 2004. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0-226-04595-1 […]
Popular Culture
Popular Culture Home Popular Culture Popular Culture by John Weaver Publisher Peter Lang 2009 Reviewed by Dr Mahendra Kumar Mishra The Peter Lang publication entitled Popular Culture PRIMER written by John A. Weaver is a commendable work in the field of understanding the paradigm shift from conventional definition of culture to popular culture cutting across […]
Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village
Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village Home Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian VillageCategory: Ethnography and Areal Anthologies Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of […]
Redefining Folklore: From Academic Domain to Public Sphere
Redefining Folklore: From Academic Domain to Public Sphere Home Redefining Folklore: From Academic Domain to Public Sphere Redefining Folklore: From Academic Domain to Public Sphere Mahendra Kumar Mishra 3 In 1989, we conducted a seminar on Gond folklore in a Gondi village. Eighty Gond traditional leaders attended the meeting. Government sanctioned three thousand rupees to […]
A Hero of the Mahabharata in Folklore of Central India
A Hero of the Mahabharata in Folklore of Central India Home A Hero of the Mahabharata in Folklore of Central India Dr Mahendra K Mishra The Ramayana and the Mahabharata composed by Valmiki and Vyasa respectively, have given due importance to each and every part of the subcontinent encompassing lands, forests, mountains, rivers and peoples […]
Toki Parab: A festival of female Infanticide in Kalahandi
Toki Parab: A festival of female Infanticide in Kalahandi Home Toki Parab: A festival of female Infanticide in Kalahandi Mahendra K Mishra Introduction : Toki Parab is a festival observed by the Kondh-paraja tribe of Kalahandi and Koraput districts in the state of Orissa. The Kondh-paraja tribe live in the Jaipatna, Koksora and Thuamul Rampur […]
Influence of the Ramayana Tradition on the Folklore of Central India
Influence of the Ramayana Tradition on the Folklore of Central India Home Influence of the Ramayana Tradition on the Folklore of Central India Mahendra K Mishra The present study is based mainly on the available folklore material of Central India. While studying it, the influence of the Ramayana tradition upon the indigenous tradition has been […]
Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions
Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions Home Sacred worldview in tribal memory: sustaining nature through cultural actions Mahendra K Mishra State Tribal Education Coordinator Orissa, India et’s imagine a tribal habitation without a road. Before the road, no jeep or truck could reach there. No forest contractors, forest officers were in […]