Folklore
Folklore is the expressive body of culture shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that culture, subculture or group. These include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. They include material culture, ranging from traditional building styles to handmade toys common to the group. Folklore also includes customary lore, the forms and rituals of celebrations such as Christmas and weddings, folk dances and initiation rites. Each one of these, either singly or in combination, is considered a folklore artifact. Just as essential as the form, folklore also encompasses the transmission of these artifacts …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
The State of India’s Birds (SoIB) is a periodic, national-level examination of the distribution range and abundance trends of Indian birds that aids in formulating conservation plans. The SoIB last …
parasitic behaviour, Asian Koel is prominent in folklore, poetry, and art in India. It is among the few …
INA: Institut National de l'Audiovisuel · 27 July 2023 French
en de et au-del de la Manche. La grande r union de Quimper tait beaucoup plus qu'une assembl e du folklore celte, elle tait la r alit vivante de l'entente cordiale entre les celtes de France et les celtes … des centaines de Bretons et de Bretonnes taient venus dire toute la force des traditions de leur folklore et la vie de la musique qui, depuis des si cles, animent toutes les f tes de Bretagne. Information: …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 May 2023 English
A film about shadow puppet theatre in the villages of the Malabar region of Kerala
depicted in the Ramayana, but also incorporates folklore. Puppeteer Narayanan Nair says, “We struggle to …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 May 2023 English
A folk-song from a region that has preserved its syncretic traditions in music, architecture and culture, despite political upheavals. This devotional song carries the unique flavour of this desert
confluence of religious practices like Sufism, poetry, folklore, mythologies, and even languages spawned by that …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 14 April 2023 English
For decades after Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s passing, it was singers like shahir Dadu Salve who nurtured the anti-caste movement and took it to the remotest corners of Maharashtra. Today, on …
politics. He sang during a period when popular folklore and songs on Ambedkar were gaining ground. Bhimrao …
BL: British Library · 21 March 2023 Sanskrit
Ramayana [Rāmāyaṇa] is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India. It narrates the life of Rama, the legendary prince of the Kosala Kingdom. This text is the …
BL: British Library · 21 March 2023 Nepali
This manuscript is a Buddhist chronicle dealing with historical contexts through legendary accounts. It discusses about the myth regarding the primordial Buddha and the Buddhist history of Nepal beginning right …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2022 English
The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on October 17, 2003, …
on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture and Folklore of 1989, in the UNESCO Universal Declaration on …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2021 English
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India, established the National Commission for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Tribes in 2005. The Commission, chaired by Balkrishna Sidram Renke, …
conserved their songs, myths, legends, toles ond folklore of people by word of mouth. These songs ond toles …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 November 2021 English
For six months every year, salt pan workers in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district labour under a blazing sun to harvest the most common kitchen staple, weathering poor working conditions and …
common, yet most important of kitchen staples: salt Folklore and proverbs are also happy hunting grounds for …
