Author: Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte
Publisher: Blaft Publications
ISBN: 9789380636214
Category : Lushai (Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Mythology & Folklore. Supernatural love affairs abound in this book of six short mythological tales from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram. There's one between a weretigress and a human hunter, another between a man and a phungpuinu (a very ugly sort of goblin), and one in which the king of the Lasi, or hidden folk, takes the beautiful human girl Chawngtinleri to be his bride. The book also includes a retelling of the Mizo creation myth: from the Thimzing (or Great Darkness) to the legendary Feast of Thlanrawkpa, and the war between the beasts of the air and the beasts of the land.
The Blaft Book of Mizo Myths
Author: Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte
Publisher: Blaft Publications
ISBN: 9789380636214
Category : Lushai (Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Mythology & Folklore. Supernatural love affairs abound in this book of six short mythological tales from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram. There's one between a weretigress and a human hunter, another between a man and a phungpuinu (a very ugly sort of goblin), and one in which the king of the Lasi, or hidden folk, takes the beautiful human girl Chawngtinleri to be his bride. The book also includes a retelling of the Mizo creation myth: from the Thimzing (or Great Darkness) to the legendary Feast of Thlanrawkpa, and the war between the beasts of the air and the beasts of the land.
Publisher: Blaft Publications
ISBN: 9789380636214
Category : Lushai (Asian people)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Mythology & Folklore. Supernatural love affairs abound in this book of six short mythological tales from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram. There's one between a weretigress and a human hunter, another between a man and a phungpuinu (a very ugly sort of goblin), and one in which the king of the Lasi, or hidden folk, takes the beautiful human girl Chawngtinleri to be his bride. The book also includes a retelling of the Mizo creation myth: from the Thimzing (or Great Darkness) to the legendary Feast of Thlanrawkpa, and the war between the beasts of the air and the beasts of the land.
Mizo Myths
Author: Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte
Publisher: Blaft Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789380636542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book of fifteen mythological tales from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram includes a creation myth and a voyage to the Land of the Dead. There are also many supernatural love affairs: one between a weretigress and a human hunter, another between a man and a Phungpuinu (a very ugly sort of goblin), and one in which the King of the Lasi, or hidden folk, takes the beautiful human woman Chawngtinleri to be his bride. Meet Hmuichukchuriduninu, the bird-beaked child-eating witch of the forest; Rulpui, the demonic love child of a python and a farmer's daughter; and Sichangneii, a woman from the sky, whose wings are stolen from her by her husband in a Mizo tale parallel to the famous story of the selkie.
Publisher: Blaft Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9789380636542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book of fifteen mythological tales from the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram includes a creation myth and a voyage to the Land of the Dead. There are also many supernatural love affairs: one between a weretigress and a human hunter, another between a man and a Phungpuinu (a very ugly sort of goblin), and one in which the King of the Lasi, or hidden folk, takes the beautiful human woman Chawngtinleri to be his bride. Meet Hmuichukchuriduninu, the bird-beaked child-eating witch of the forest; Rulpui, the demonic love child of a python and a farmer's daughter; and Sichangneii, a woman from the sky, whose wings are stolen from her by her husband in a Mizo tale parallel to the famous story of the selkie.
Ecology, Myth, and Mystery
Author: N. D. R. Chandra
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176257428
Category : Ecocriticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
ISBN: 9788176257428
Category : Ecocriticism
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses
Author: Sahdev Luhar
Publisher: N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
ISBN: 8195500846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.
Publisher: N. S. Patel (Autonomous) Arts College, Anand
ISBN: 8195500846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Folklore Studies in India: Critical Regional Responses is an interesting compilation of twenty-eight critical articles on the beginning of folklore studies in the different parts of India. In the absence of a book that could map the history of Indian folklore studies single-handedly, this book can be deemed as the first-of-its-kind to feature the historical development of folklore studies in the different states of India. This book succinctly introduces the readers to the folk culture, folk arts, and folk genres of a particular region and to the different aspects of folkloristic researches carried out in that region.
A Handbook of Folklore Material of North-East India
Author: Bīrendranātha Datta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arunāchal Pradesh
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Analysis of the Value of Myth and Story Among the Mizo People in Myanmar
Author: Tial Rlei Thanga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Mizo tribes of Myanmar's northern highlands experienced a large-scale conver sion to Christianity from animism during the past century. However, ancient myth s and stories still provide an important frame of reference for the Mizos, espec ially the elderly. The author proposes to use elements of these traditions to mo re clearly communicate the gospel of Christ. This dissertation ethnographically divides Mizo myths and stories into three categories--dealing, respectively, wit h God (the supernatural), man, and nature (the world). Having interviewed a numb er of elderly Mizos, the author recounts in detail usefulness to Christian worke rs. He also demonstrates the value of myths and stories as insights into the Miz o worldview. Finally, he recommends several practical steps that Myanmar-based a nd western Christian agencies can take to more effectively interact with tribal people.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Mizo tribes of Myanmar's northern highlands experienced a large-scale conver sion to Christianity from animism during the past century. However, ancient myth s and stories still provide an important frame of reference for the Mizos, espec ially the elderly. The author proposes to use elements of these traditions to mo re clearly communicate the gospel of Christ. This dissertation ethnographically divides Mizo myths and stories into three categories--dealing, respectively, wit h God (the supernatural), man, and nature (the world). Having interviewed a numb er of elderly Mizos, the author recounts in detail usefulness to Christian worke rs. He also demonstrates the value of myths and stories as insights into the Miz o worldview. Finally, he recommends several practical steps that Myanmar-based a nd western Christian agencies can take to more effectively interact with tribal people.
Negotiating Culture
Author: Margaret L. Pachuau
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9356400199
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempt to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative. Linking the concern with identity to popular literature, individualism, and the need to draw borderlines, the essays identify the most important topics in individual and collective identities in the Mizo. The illuminating essays contextualize developments within Mizo intellectual history, and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature, ethnography, and ethnic and cultural studies. From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western cultures.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9356400199
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In these phenomenal essays, 14 scholars take stock of the effects and response to identity, and culture studies within Mizo literary narratives. The essays address issues that contextualize the development of subaltern and postcolonial studies and the quest for identity within the Mizo perspective. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective, with insights from history, memory studies, cultural studies and attempt to locate and situate dynamics that are related to orality, history and narrative. Linking the concern with identity to popular literature, individualism, and the need to draw borderlines, the essays identify the most important topics in individual and collective identities in the Mizo. The illuminating essays contextualize developments within Mizo intellectual history, and display aspects that relate to the continuing force in the ongoing study of the relationship between literature, ethnography, and ethnic and cultural studies. From orality, colonial, and postcolonial parameters, the book analyzes the ways in which colonial struggles have continued to contribute to postcolonial discourse in the Mizo, by producing fundamental ideas about the relationship between non-western and western cultures.
Mizo mythology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Keepers of Knowledge
Author: Hmingthanzuali
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9390514967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An old Mizo proverb holds that a woman’s wisdom takes her only as far as the village stream. Such proverbs and beliefs have weighed heavily on the journeys of Mizo women such that even today, more than a century after the introduction of the written alphabet in Mizoram, there are barely any narratives by women in the existing body of published texts. Women’s limited access to speaking out in the time or orality sadly did not transform into opportunities to write and publish. And yet, when the editors of this volume—perhaps the first ever such anthology in the state—set out to search for writings by women, they were delighted and surprised to find a wealth of stories, narratives, personal accounts, poems, art and more. These now grace the pages of this remarkable first-of-its-kind book.
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9390514967
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An old Mizo proverb holds that a woman’s wisdom takes her only as far as the village stream. Such proverbs and beliefs have weighed heavily on the journeys of Mizo women such that even today, more than a century after the introduction of the written alphabet in Mizoram, there are barely any narratives by women in the existing body of published texts. Women’s limited access to speaking out in the time or orality sadly did not transform into opportunities to write and publish. And yet, when the editors of this volume—perhaps the first ever such anthology in the state—set out to search for writings by women, they were delighted and surprised to find a wealth of stories, narratives, personal accounts, poems, art and more. These now grace the pages of this remarkable first-of-its-kind book.
Folklore as Discourse
Author: M. D. Muthukumaraswamy
Publisher: NFSC www.indianfolklore.org
ISBN: 8190148168
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Contributed articles with reference to India.
Publisher: NFSC www.indianfolklore.org
ISBN: 8190148168
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Contributed articles with reference to India.