Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Beṭṭa Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Beṭṭa Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-11
Mått:155 x 235 x 44 mm
Vikt:1 165 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages
Antal sidor:652
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004378223

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Gail Coelho, Ph.D. (2003, University of Texas at Austin), is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delhi. She has several publications in language analysis and documentation, including The Re-emergence of Finite Serial Verbs in South Dravidian (Walter de Gruyter, 2012).

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"The texts in ATBK are only a part of those that Coelho has collected over the past quarter century. Dravidian scholars will applaud her admirable achievement and look forward to the future publication of additional texts and grammatical analysis of this fascinating, understudied language. ATBK is the foundational study on which all subsequent study of BK will stand."-Sanford B Steever, in Linguist List, Tue Oct 01 2019.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsIllustrationsSymbols and Abbreviations1 Introduction1.1 General Overview1.2 Overview of the Language1.3 Grammatical Information1.4 The Physical and Social Context1.5 The Texts in This BookPart 1 Folktales2 Prelude to the Folktales2.1 General Overview2.2 The Storytellers2.3 The Folktales in English Translation3 The Turban Maker4 The Fish Prince5 The Offended Daughter6 The Prince Who Subdivided HimselfPart 2 Dialogues7 Prelude to the Dialogues7.1 General Overview7.2 Cultural Background7.3 The Dialogues in English Translation8 Aspects of Community Life8.1 Catching Fish8.2 Cooking Fish8.3 Gathering Forest Honey8.4 Building Houses8.5 The Head of the Clan8.6 The binji: a Spirit Invocation Ritual8.7 Working with Elephants8.8 An Encounter with a Wild Bear8.9 Traditional Healing9 Legends about Deities10 Legends about AncestorsGlossaryReferencesIndex