Folklore in the New Millennium : Festschrift to Prof. B. Rama Raju
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Biodata of Prof. B. Rama Raju. 2. Folklore: my first love/B. Rama Raju. 3. Biruduraju Rama Raju: a biography/K. Vijaya Laxmi. 4. Prof. B. Rama Raju: a founder of Telugu folklore research/N. Bhakthavathsala Reddy. 5. B. Rama Raju's Telugu Janapada Geya Sahityamu: a review/G. Sambasiva Rao. I. General issues of folklore in the new millennium: 1. The future of folklore in the new millennium/Indra Deva. 2. Folklore and modern Indian society/Jawaharlal Handoo. 3. Ethnic identity in the modern world/Susmita Poddar. 4. Folklore and identity/T.N Shankaranarayana. 5. Who owns folklore?/Raghavan Payyanad. 6. Continuity and change among Gujjars in Jammu Siwaliks/Devinder Singh and Ashish Saxena. 7. Relevance of folklore in the new millennium/V. Vachaspati. 8. Folklore and globalization/H.S. Ramachandra Gowda. 9. Translation of folk literature/T. Sai Chandra Mouli. 10. Applied Folklore/R.V.S. Sundaram. II. Various genres and themes of folklore: 11. Who were you talking to?/Lee Haring. 12. Folk-traditions of God Narasimha in A.P/M.L.K. Murty. 13. The Pandava folklore in the Himalayas/Subhadra Mitra Channa. 14. A socio-cultural study of the Ballad cycle of Katamaraju/T.V. Subba Rao. 15. An analytical study of Lakshmi Devara Katha/N. Krishna Kumari. 16. The epic tradition of the Kakipadigelus/P. Jyoti. 17. Tax evasion in folk Ramayana/B. Rukmini. 18. An anthropological study of the Punjabi legend of Noorkhan/Ranjeet Singh Bajwa. 19. Myths and legends of Goddess Kamakhya's temple/Anima Choudhury. 20. Kafka and mythology transformation of myths/Rosy Singh. 21. A Punjabi folk song: the semiotics of the Yogi/Surjit Singh. 22. Folk-songs as a part of marriage ceremony/T. Susheela. 23. Gender discrimination in Haryanvi folksongs/Deep Punia and R.K. Puna. 24. Animal sacrifice and gender: a study of agricultural rituals/Anjali Padhi. 25. Folk beliefs and traditions of Kumauni peasants/C.M. Agarwal. 26. The Adi Dravidar - the social customs of an oppressed group/Rose Mary. 27. The narratology of Yakshagana Prasangas/Guru Rao Bapat. 28. The unspoken convention in traditional theater/K.A. Gunasekaran. 29. The "Folkishness" of the folk craft/Pulikonda Subbachary. 30. Folk arts: forms and functions/S. Gangappa. 31. An overview of folk-performances in Andhra Pradesh/C. Krishna Reddy. 32. Folklore studies in Telugu/G.S. Mohan. 33. Folklore documentation -contemporary needs/Jayadheer Tirumala Rao. III. Folklore, history and tourism: 34. Folklore, oral tradition and local history/K.K.N. Kurup. 35. History and folk Ballads/Kolluru Suryanarayana. 36. Oral history of Muthuvan and their migration/S. Rajendran. 37. Oral tradition and history/M.V. Vishnu Namboodiri. 38. Semantics of Folk-words and proverbs/Nikhilesh Purkait. 39. Oral tradition and tourism: a study of Nilgiri hills/Jakka Parthasarathy. 40. Emergence of tourism/Devendra Kumar S. Harkari. 41. Folklore and tourism: their reciprocity/Atul Chandra Bhowmick. 42. Folklore for tourism/K. Satya Murty. Index.
"This age of post modernism has woken up from the slumber of modernism and begun to recognize certain plus points of pre modern age that have been discounted as unscientific and unreliable during modernism. Consequently, the local and the specific issues have acquired importance. Unlike the age of modernism that threatened the existence and sustenance of folklore, this age compassionately protects and preserves the treasures of folklore. The scholars through their papers have endeavoured to describe and discuss various issues of folklore in this new millennium.
This book presents a good gamut of scholars from highly academic to greatly experienced people in folklore. All the papers are divided into three major categories. The first section covers general issues of folklore in the new millennium. The second describes various genres and themes of folklore, and the third discusses the relationship of folklore with history and tourism. The information, the hypotheses and the analysis will certainly interest and benefit folklorists and folklore enthusiasts." (jacket)
