Articles
Abstract
Folktales are a powerful source of oral tradition. Regional culture, environment, folk customs, customs and traditions, social customs, manners, beliefs, religious sentiments, and supernatural fantasies shape the content. The story also tells the story of the various cunning, conflicting concepts, life and physical creation, and birth mysteries of the groups involved. The article seeks to discuss the traditional and scholarly classification, the performers, and performance of folktales in West Odisha, also concerned with its socio-cultural implications.
Keywords
Kathani(folktales), West Odisha, Paribeshana (performance), kathak (Storyteller),References
- Abrahams, Roger D. “Toward an Enactment-Centered Theory of Folklore”. Frontiers of Folklore. Ed. William R. Bascom. Boulder: West View Press, 1977. 79-120.
- Bascom, William R. “Four Function of Folklore”. Journal of American Folklore 67.226 (1954): 333-349.
- Bascom, William R. “The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives”. Journal of American Folklore 78.307 (1965): 3-20. https://doi.org/10.2307/538099
- Bauman, Richard. “Verbal Art as Performance”. American Anthropologist 77.2 (1975): 290-311. rpt. Verbal Art as Performance. Ed. Richard Bauman. Long Grove IL: Wave land Press, Inc., 1977. 3-58.
- Bauman, Richard. Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative. 1986. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Ben-Amos, Dan., and Kenneth S. Goldstein. Eds. Folklore: Performance and Communication. The Hague: Mouton Publishers, 1975.
- Georges, Robert A. “Toward an Understanding of Storytelling Events”. Journal of American Folklore 82.326 (1969): 313-328.
- Kutin, Barbara Ivancic. “The Role of Participants in a Storytelling Event”. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 37(2007): 35-42. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2007.37.kutin
- Mullen, Patrick B. “A Traditional Storyteller in Changing Contexts”. And Other Neighborly Names. Eds. Richard Bauman, and Roger D. Abraham. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. 266-279.
