- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (9 April 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226040836
- ISBN-13: 978-0226040837
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.9 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 996,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, "Folktales of India" opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas, and remote villages in north and south India, and the distinctive boundary regions of Kashmir, Assam, and Manipur. The tales in this collection emphasize universal human characteristics--truthfulness, modesty, loyalty, courage, generosity, and honesty. Each story is meant to be savored individually with special attention given to the great range of motifs presented and the many distinct narrative styles used. "Folktales of India" offers a superb anthology of India's bountiful narrative tradition.
"This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . . It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general."--Hugh M. Flick, Jr., "Asian Folklore Studies"
"The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."--Kunal Chakraborti, "Contributions to Indian Sociology"
"This collection does an excellent job of representing India. . . . It is the type of book that can be enjoyed by all readers who love a well-told tale as well as by scholars of traditional narrative and scholars of India in general."--Hugh M. Flick, Jr., "Asian Folklore Studies"
"The stories collected here are representative, rich in structural subtlety, and endowed with fresh earthy humor."--Kunal Chakraborti, "Contributions to Indian Sociology"
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Some confusion between two different books.
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This book is part of the University of Chicago's series of books on international folklore. While A.K. Ramanjuan provides an excellent introduction in the book, this is not the book of Indian tales he selected and edited himself. That is this book, Folktales from India (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) in the Pantheon Fairy and Folktale Series. Both books are excellent surveys of Indian folklore. The University of Chicago book (of India as opposed to from India) has a more scholarly bent to it and is recommended to more serious students of the literature.
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