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Tales of Ancient India

Author : J.A.B. van Buitenen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623018X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Ancient India written by J.A.B. van Buitenen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid."—The Times Literary Supplement "Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural."—The Personalist

Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes

Author : Franz Boas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Folk-tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes written by Franz Boas and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taíno Indian Myth and Practice

Author : William F. Keegan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813072379
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Taíno Indian Myth and Practice written by William F. Keegan and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying the legend of the "stranger king" to Caonabo, the mythologized Taino chief of the Hispaniola settlement Columbus invaded in 1492, Keegan examines how myths come to resonate as history--created by the chaotic interactions of the individuals who lived the events of the past as well as those who write and read about them. The "stranger king" story told in many cultures is that of a foreigner who comes from across the water, marries the king's daughter, and deposes the king. In this story, Caonabo, the most important Taíno chief at the time of European conquest, claimed to be imbued with Taino divinity, while Columbus, determined to establish a settlement called La Navidad, described himself as the "Christbearer." Keegan's ambitious historical analysis--knitting evidence from Spanish colonial documents together with data gathered from the archaeological record--provides a new perspective on the encounters between the two men as they vied for control of the settlement, a survey of the early interactions of the Tainos and Spanish people, and a complex view of the interpretive role played by historians and archaeologists. Presenting a new theoretical framework based on chaos and complexity theories, this book argues for a more comprehensive philosophy of archaeology in which oral myths, primary source texts, and archaeological studies can work together to reconstruct a particularly rich view of the past. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

American Indians in Texas: Conflict and Survival

Author : Sandy Phan
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 9781433350405
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book American Indians in Texas: Conflict and Survival written by Sandy Phan and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groups of American Indians had been living in the Texas region for thousands of years when American settlers decided to expand westward. This captivating book explores the Texas history and the history of American Indians and how each group found different ways to live on the region they inhabited. Readers will learn about a variety of tribes, including Karankawa tribe, Jumano, Caddo, Lipan Apache, and Shosone and discover how they struggled to survive European colonization, Indian Removal Act, and American expansion. Other topics include the Dawes Act, Indian Civil Rights Act, and peace treaties. Through plenty of interesting and intriguing facts, engaging sidebars, accommodating glossary and index, and supportive text, readers will be encouraged to learn and explore the history of the Indians of North America.

The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales

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Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1402732635
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Girl who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Native American stories arranged geographically.

Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians: Stories of other narrators, English translations

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803236950
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians: Stories of other narrators, English translations written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota with the Mandans and Hidatsas. Although their postcontact history and aspects of their culture are well documented, Douglas R. Parks's monumental four-volume work Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians represents the first comprehensive attempt to describe and record their language and literary traditions. Volumes 1 and 2 present transcriptions of 156 oral narratives in Arikara and include literal interlinear English translations. Volumes 3 and 4 contain free English translations of those narratives, making available for the first time a broad, representative group of Arikara oral traditions that will be invaluable not only to anthropologists and folklorists but to everyone interested in American Indian life and literature. The narratives cover the entire range of traditional stories found in the historical and literary tradition of the Arikara people, who classify their stories into two categories, true stories and tales. Here are myths of ancient times, legends of power bestowed, historical narratives, and narratives of mysterious incidents that affirm the existence today of supernatural power in the world, along with tales of the trickster Coyote and stories of the risque Stuwi and various other animals. In addition, there are accounts of Arikara ritualism: prayers and descriptions of how personal names are bestowed and how the Death Feast originated.

American Indian Stories

Author : Zitkala-Sa
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book American Indian Stories written by Zitkala-Sa and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Zitkála-Šá. The author was a Sioux historian and recounts here several colorful legends and tales from American Indian oral tradition.

Texas Indian Myths & Legends

Author : Jane Arcger
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556227256
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Texas Indian Myths & Legends written by Jane Arcger and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five native nations of Texas come alive in this vividly written book.

A Companion to Indian Fiction in English

Author : Pier Paolo Piciucco
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126903108
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Indian Fiction in English written by Pier Paolo Piciucco and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After The Pioneer Works By Scholars Such As Naik, Narasimhaiah And Mukherjee, And The Thirty Years Of Silence Which Followed Their Ground-Breaking Achievements, The Companion Appears On The Scene Striving To Reinvigorate The Tradition Of Panoramic Studies Of Indian Literature In English. In The Intervening Period, Indian Fiction In English Has Become Of Paramount Importance In The Wide Context Of Postcolonial Studies: An Emergent Crop Of Novelists Belonging To The So-Called New Generation Has Colourfully Paved The Way Towards New Artistic Horizons, Re-Interpreting Western-Derived Literary Models With Inventive Approaches. Complementary To Their Role There Is The Articulate Presence Of A Host Of Indian Scholars Who In Recent Years Have Significantly Influenced The Course Of This Analysis And Have Vitally Contributed To Enlarging Its Scope Well Beyond The Original Boundaries Of Studies In Literary Criticism.The Companion, Therefore, Addresses The Exigencies Of Critics, Teachers And Students Alike All Those Who Need To Find Quick Points Of Reference In This Wide Field Of Studies By Relying On A Team Of Authoritative Collaborators And Specialists From All Over The World. Great Care Was Taken Not Only In Selecting Collaborators On The Basis Of Their Specialisation But Also Taking Into Account Their Cultural Background In Relation To The Author They Were To Discuss. The Book In Fact Has Been Organised To Have What Have Been Deemed To Be The Most Representative Authors In Indian Fiction Discussed In An Essay-Long Chapter Each, Structured To Highlight Crucial Points Such As Biographical Details, Novels And Critical Reception. Each Chapter Includes A Final Bibliography Complete With Primary And Secondary Sources, Enabling The Scholar To Have Immediate Orientation On Various Specific Topics. Finally, The Book Has An Innovative Section, With Synopses Of Novels, Planned To Allow Our Readers To Immediately Place The Authors Analysed Within The Panorama Of Indian Fiction In English. The Over 400 Synopses Included Principally Introduce Works Written By The Novelists Discussed At Length In The Previous Chapters But, Along With Them, It Is Also Possible To Find Summaries Of Works By Authors Who, Although Contributing In A Significant Way To The Development Of Forms And Techniques, Do Not Feature In The First Part.

First Voyage of the Apostle Thomas to India

Author : James Kurikilamkatt
Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1925612643
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book First Voyage of the Apostle Thomas to India written by James Kurikilamkatt and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If St. Thomas reached India in 52 AD, where was he preaching in the years prior to ths? Can there be truth to the idea that he traveled to India? This book tries to give comprehensive answers to these questions.

Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927

Author : Swarupa Gupta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349766
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927 written by Swarupa Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927, Swarupa Gupta outlines a fresh paradigm moving beyond stereotypical representations of eastern India as a site of ethnic fragmentation. The book traces unities by exploring intersections between (1) cultural constellations; (2) place-making and (3) ethnicity. Centralising place-making, it tells the story of how people made places, mediating caste / religious / linguistic contestations. It offers new meanings of ‘region’ in Eastern Indian and global contexts by showing how an interregional arena comprising Bengal, Assam and Orissa was forged. Using historical tracts, novels, poetry and travelogues, the book argues that commonalities in Eastern India were linked to imaginings of Indian nationhood. The analysis contains interpretive strategies for mediating federalist separatisms and fragmentation in contemporary India.

A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520311450
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India written by A. K. Ramanujan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could—servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

The Myths Of The North American Indians

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849620034
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Myths Of The North American Indians written by Lewis Spence and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary object of this volume is to furnish the reader with a general view of the mythologies of the Red Man of North America, accompanied by such historical and ethnological information as will assist him in gauging the real conditions under which this most interesting section of humanity existed. The basic difference between the Indian and European mental outlook is insisted upon, because it is felt that no proper comprehension of American Indian myth or conditions of life can be attained when such a distinction is not recognized and allowed for. The difference between the view-point, mundane and spiritual, of the Red Man and that of the European is as vast as that which separates the conceptions and philosophies of the East and West. Nevertheless we shall find in the North American mythologies much that enters into the composition of the immortal tales of the older religions of the Eastern Hemisphere. All myth, Asiatic, European, or American, springs from similar natural conceptions, and if we discover in American mythology peculiarities which we do not observe in the systems of Greece, Rome, or Egypt, we may be certain that these arise from circumstances of environment and racial habit as modified by climate and kindred conditions alone. From the contents: Chapter I: Divisions, Customs, And History Of The Race The First Indians In Europe Indians As Jews Welsh Speaking Indians Antiquity Of Man In America The Great Miocene Bridge American Man In Glacial Times The Calaveras Skull More Recent Finds Later Man In America Affinities With Siberian Peoples Chapter II: Myths Of The American Indians The Evidence Of American Languages Evidences Of Asiatic Intercourse Later Migrations The Norsemen In America Leif The Lucky The Land Of Wine The Skraelingr The Dighton Rock The Mound Buildcrs Mounds In Animal Form What The Mounds Contain The Tomb Of The Black Tortoise Who Were The Mound-Builders? The ' Nations' Of North America The Iroquois The Algonquins A Sedentary People The Muskhogean Race The Sioux Caddoan Family The Shoshoneans Early Wars With The Whites King Philip's War The Reservations The Story Of Pocahontas Indian Kidnapping Dwellings Tribal Law And Custom Hunting Costume Face Painting Indian Art Warfare The Indian Wife And Mother Indian Child Life An Indian Girl's Vigil Picture Writing Modern Education And Culture Chapter III: The Mythologies Of The North American Indians Animism Totemism Totemic Law And Custom Severity Of Totemic Rule Fetishism Fetish Objects Apache Fetishes Iroquoian Fetishes Fetishism Among The Algonquins Totemism And Fetishism Meet The Sun-Children The Prey Gods The Council Of Fetishes The Fetish In Hunting Indian Theology ... and much more ...

The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra

Author : Jaydeep Sarangi
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176256223
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra written by Jaydeep Sarangi and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2006 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines various themes in the works of Jayanta Mahapatra, b. 1928, Indo-English poet.

Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales

Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Buddhist birth stories; or, Jataka tales written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book 'Buddhist Birth Stories; or, Jataka Tales' is a collection of ancient Indian tales that are believed to be the past lives of the Buddha. These stories offer moral lessons and spiritual insights in the form of allegorical narratives. Written in a simple and engaging style, the book provides a glimpse into the cultural and religious context of early Buddhism. The Jataka tales are rich in symbolism and offer valuable teachings on compassion, wisdom, and ethical conduct. This collection serves as a foundational text in Buddhist literature, illustrating the principles of karma and reincarnation. The stories are not only entertaining but also serve as fables with deep philosophical meanings. Various authors have contributed to this compilation, preserving these timeless narratives for future generations.

Storytime in India

Author : Helen Priscilla Myers
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041651
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Storytime in India written by Helen Priscilla Myers and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in India is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together, and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope. Moving through these intertwined stories, the reader learns about the complete Bhojpuri wedding tradition through songs sung by Gangajali and access to the original song recordings and their translations. In the interludes, Pandey reads and interprets The Eustace Diamonds, confronting the reader with the ever-present influence of colonialism, both in India and in ethnographic fieldwork. Interwoven throughout are stories of the everyday, highlighting the ups and downs of the ethnographic experience. Storytime in India combines the style of the Victorian novel with the structure of traditional Indian village tales, in which stories are told within stories. This book questions how we can and should present ethnography as well as what we really learn in the field. As Myers and Pandey ultimately conclude, writers of scholarly books are storytellers themselves and scholarly books are a form of art, just like the traditions they study.

An Annotated Bibliography of Indian English Fiction

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Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788171569984
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (699 download)

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Download or read book An Annotated Bibliography of Indian English Fiction written by and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endeavouring To Accomplish An Intract-Able Tight Rope Walking, Indian English Literature Seeks To Incorporate Indian Themes And Experience In A Blend Of Indian And Western Aesthetics. What The Diverse Dimensions Of The Indian Experience And The Evolving Literary Form Are And Whether The Former Reconciles With The Latter Or Not Is Sought To Be Examined In The Present Volume Of This Anthology. A Strikingly Fresh Perspective On The Hitherto Unexplored Areas Of Old Works. A Bold And Incisive Critique Of New Works.