Folklore of Orissa

Language: EnglishPages: 184 (B & W Illus: 12) About the BookWithout a real modern city center, Orissa has been truly a State of thoroughly agrarian villages with their innate charm of folk music, dance, songs and other arts belonging to folk tradition. The sizeable Adivasi populations of the State as well as the cult of Jagannathe have influenced the folk tradition greatly Language: EnglishPages: 184 (B & W Illus: 12) About the BookWithout a real modern city center, Orissa has been truly a State of thoroughly agrarian villages with their innate charm of folk music, dance, songs and other arts belonging to folk tradition. The sizeable Adivasi populations of the State as well as the cult of Jagannathe have influenced the folk tradition greatly. Nevertheless, the folklore of Orissa has been most liberal, catholic and exquisitely artistic in its form and content. Orissa's folk dances like Mayurbhanj Chhau and folk crafts like Pipli appliqué works and filigree Have gained popularity far beyond the State boundary. About the Author The authors, Dr K.B. DAS and Dr. L.K. MAHAPATRA, are acknowledged authorities on folklore of Orissa. Dr Das is the U.G.C. Professor of Oriya language and literature in Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and has a number of research publications on Orissan folklore to his credit. Besides his many other important assignments, Dr. Mahapatra was a visiting Professor of Anthropology, Sociology and Indology at Hamburg University. He retired as Professor of Anthropology from the Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, and at Present he is the Emeritus Fellow, U.G.C. Preface Folklore is a medium through which the soul of a people expressed itself colorfully and in such creation they find an artistic fulfillment and entertainment. This is no less true of Orissa and her people.Folklore is conceived variously by various scholars and by different disciplines. Folklore to the atnrhopologists is a part of culture but not the whole of culture. In includes myths legends, tales, proverbs, riddles, the texts of ballads and other songs and other forms of lesser importance but not folk are folk dance, folk music, folk costume, folk medicine, folk custom or f ...more