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functions of family kinship terms-types of kinship- role of kinship and social
organization in the creation transmission and sustenance of folklore and folklife. (3)
II. Introduction to Indian folk culture --Cultural landscapesTribal and folk.
Discourse on culture- behavioural anthropologists, functionalists, structuralists,
cognitive anthropologists, symbolists, folklorists, traits of culture- tradition vs.
culture, landscapes vs. cultural landscapes, types of landscapeshistorical, historically
designed, historically vernacular, ethnographic landscapes-ecotypes, arid, semi arid
and wet environment as a determinant of folklore and folklife in tribal and folk
societies, oicotypification of genres. (3)
III. Genres Functions of Folklore
Classification and theories of genres- Richard Dorson, , Ben Amos, Richard Bauman,
Roger Abrahams- ethnic and analytical genres, (6)
IV. Social stratification and ethnicity- negotiating identities- Oral narrative reflections
(myth, epic, legend and tale)
Indian social order- varna, jati, emergence of new social groups across the ages and
growth of bard tradition, incorporation and integration of ethnic groups, construction
and sustenance of ethnic identities through oral traditions caste myths, ballads,
legends, folk tales, personal narratives, ritual narratives, ritual processes etc,. (6)

V. Subsistence patterns and Economic organization-arts and crafts, material culture
reflections.
Hunting and gathering, pastoralism, hoe-agricultural practices in tribal societies,
agrarian practices, domestic crafts for consumption and exchange basket making,
weaving, dyeing, pottery, work work, metal work, stonework, masonry, goldsmithy,
arts performing and paintings, toy making etc,-material culture-typology of
materials and technology involved in the manufacture of the materials, the
communities connected with the production of the materials and exchange
relationships. (6)
VI. Political systems and Conflict resolution- games, amusements, riddles, and
Proverbs.
Polity-types of political institutions band, tribes, chiefdoms, state, kingship and
kinship, conflict, conflict styles, responses to conflicts, factors contributing for
conflicts, role of folklore in resolving conflicts- games ( Eric Goffman), rituals /
amusements (Victor Turner, Milton singer, Von Gennep), riddles/proverbs, speech
acts (Paul Recoeur, Dell Hymes ) (6)
VII. Religion and Ritual practices- belief, worship of gods and goddesses, sacred
Complexes and cult centers.
Definition of religion from folkloric perspective, belief-ritual-worship, ritual
ideology and process as metaphors of communities, social groups connected to the
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cult centers, functioning of sacred spaces, sacred grooves , rituals associated with the
cults and cult centers and participation of people. (6) + 3 internal assessments
Suggested Reading:
Appadurai, Arjun, Frank J .Korom, Margret A.Mills, 1991 (Ed.) Gender, Genre and Power in
South Asian Expressive Traditions, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ben, Amos, Dan, (Ed) 1976, Folklore genres, Austin University of Texas press
--------1982, Towards a definition of folklore in Folklore in context, New Delhi, South Asian
publisher
--------1982, Folklore in the context, New Delhi, South Asian publisher,
Bhagavat P.D., 1965, The Riddles in Indian Life, Lore and Literature, Bombay, Popular
Prakashan.
Bhattacharya N.N. 1979, The Indian Mother Goddess, New Delhi
Blackburn H.Stuart, A.K.Ramanujan. 1986, Another Harmony, New Essays and the Folklore of
India, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Claus, Peter. J ., and Frank J Korom, 1991, Folkloristic and Indian folklore, Udipi, Regional
Resources Centre for Folk-performing Arts
Clifford, J . and G.E.Marcus. 1986, Writing Culture : The Poetics and Politics of Ethnograph,
Berkeley, University of California Press.
Clifford Geertz. 1973, The Interpretation of Cultures, New York, Basick Books Inc.
Dorson, Richard, M., 1972, Folklore and Folk life, Chicago, Chicago University press
Dundes, Alan, (Ed), 1965, the study of folklore, Prentice Hall
---1964, Text, Texture and Context, in Southern Folklore (quarterly), vol. 28, pp 251-265
--------1975, Analytical essays in Folklore, The Hague, Mouton
--------1978, Essays in Folkloristic, Meerut, Folklore Institute
--------1988, The Sacred Narrative, Readings in the Theory of Myth, Berkeley, University of
California Press
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Islam, Mazharul, 1985, Folklore the pulse of the people in the context of Indian folklore, New
Delhi, Concept publishing Company,
_____, 1998, The Theoretical study of folklore, Dhakha Bangla Academy
Oring Elliot (Ed) 1990 Folk Groups and Folk lore Genres. Utha: Utha State University
Singer, Milton (1972) When a Great Tradition Modernizes, New York, Praeger.
Sontheimer, Gunther Dvetz. 1989, Pastoral Deities in Western India, New York, Oxford
University Press.





















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Evolutionary theories-concept of evolution, cultural evolutionists, myth ritualists,
devolutionary theories-Marxists and elitists- merits, demerits and relevance to folklore
studies. (3)
3. Diffusion Theories Monogenesis and Polygenesis: Historic Geographic method,
Indianist theory, Egyptians and Finnish Convergence vs. parallelism theories. (6)

4. Structuralism Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic approaches: V.Propp, Levi-Strauss and
Alan Dundes.(6)

5. Functionalism Psychosomatic, Structural and Social functionalist: Freud, J ung, Post
Freud Edmund Leech, Clifford Geertz, Milton Singer, Victor Turner, Eric Goffman. (6)

6. Contextual Theories Mnemonic and Performance Studies Lauri Honko , Richard
Bauman and Ben Amos. (6)

7. Post Structural and Post Modern Approaches Gender and Identity issues: Thomas
Burns, Heibermas, Lash Scott, David Harry. (6) + Three Assignments

Suggested Reading:
Abrahim, Roger. D., 1992, The past in the presence-An overview of Folkloristic in the Late 20
th

century in Reimund Kvideland et. Al(ed), Folklore processed,Helsinki, Soumalaisen
kirjauisuuden seura (pp. 32-51)
Benedict, Ruth (1934) Patterns of Culture, New York, New American Library.
Burns, Thomas A., "Folkloristics: A Conception Theory", in Elliot Oring (ed.), Folk Groups and
Folklore Genre, Utah State Univ. Press. Logan Utah (1989), pp. 1-20.
Bhaktin, Mikhail (1981) Discourse in the Novel in The Dialogical Imagination (ed) Michael
Holquist, Austin, Texas University Press, pp.259-442.
Boaz Franz, "The Growth of Indian Mythologies", Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 9, (1896),
pp. 1-11.
Brunvand J . Harold. 1986. The Study of American Folklore an Introduction. New York:W.W
Norton.
Bronner, Simon J . 1986. American folklore Studies an Intellectual History. Lawrence: University
of Kansas Press.
Clifford, J ames and George E. Marcus (1986) Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of
Ethnography, Berkeley, and University of California Press.
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Cocchiara, Giuseppe. 1971. The History of Folklore Studies in Europe. Translated by J ohn N.
McDaniel. Philadelphia: Institute of Study of Human issues.
Dorson, Richard. M., "The Eclipse of Solar Mythology", Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 68
(1955), pp. 393-416; rpt. in Alan Dundes (ed.), The Study of Folklore, Prentice Hall Inc., N. J .,
(1965), pp. 57-83.
----------1963, Current Folklore Theories,Current Anthropology, Vol.4, No..1Press.
Honko, Lauri, 1998. Textualising Siri Epic, Helsinki, Folklore Fellows Communications,
No.264.

Hymes, Dell (1974) Foundations of Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach, Philadelphia,
and University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kanaka Durga. P.S. (2001) Gender Studies on Folklore: Trends and Prospects in (ed)
B.Ramakrishna Reddy, Dravidian Folk and Tribal Lore, Dravidian University: Kuppam.
--------(2006),Transformability of Gender Roles: Converging Identities in Personal and Poetic
Narratives(eds), Leela Prasad, Ruth, B.Bottingheimer&Lalitha Handoo, Gender and Story in
India, Albany, State University of New York Press.pp.87-140
Lvi-Strauss, C. 1968, The Structural Study of Myth, in Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Myth: A
Symposium Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
---------1966, (originally published in French 1962) The Savage Mind. Trans. George Weidenfeld
and Nicholson Ltd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
___. 1963 Structural Anthropology. New York: Basic Books.
Lord, Albert B. 1960 The Singer of Tales. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Malinowski, Bronislaw. (1926) Myth in primitive Psychology, (New York). Reprinted in Magic,
Science and Religion and other Essays (New York, 1948).
Propp, Vladimir. 1968. Morphology of the Folk-Tale. bers. Laurence Scott. Austin: U of Texas
Sarup, Madan (1989) An introductory Guide to Post structuralism and Postmodernism, Athens,
the University of Georgia Press.
Sadhana Naitani 1996 (?) Folklore Research in Colonial India.
Tylor, E. B. 1865Researches into the Early History of Mankind, London.
Zipes, J ack, Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales, University of
Texas Press, Austin, (1 979).

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2. Genres of Folk Performance (8)
Verbal and nonverbal genres- speech acts, sounds, yelling, shouts, songs, ballads,
miming, dance, music, drama-any expression or utterances in performatory context.

3. Linguistic and Structural Study approaches:
Ferdinand de Saussure, Roman J akobson, Dell Hymes, J oel Sherzer.- semiotics, syntax,
semantics and pragmatics, langue and parole, theory of communication, ethnography of
speaking. (6)

4. Cultural Studies approaches: Milton singer, Game analogy of Erwin Goffman, Ritual
drama of Victor Turner, Interpretation of cultures by Clifford Greetz. (6)

5. Performance centered approaches: Richard Bauman, Ben-Amos, and
Richard Schesner (6)

6. Cultural performances: Identity
Identity- theories , personal vs, social/ communal, self, generic self, dialogical self
and Construction of identity, self and the other - Culture as a marker of identity. (4)

7. Interpreting Cultural Performances: Etic and Emic approaches and their pertinence to
the Performance studies (4) + 3 Internals Assignments

Suggested Reading:
Abrahams, Roger D. (1968), Introductory Remarks to a Rhetorical Theory of Folklore,
Journal of American Folklore. 81, pp.1-16.
------------------------(1992) The past in the presence: An overview of Folkloristics in the late
20
th
century in Folklore Processed (ed) Reimund Kvideland, Helsinki, Suomalaisen
Kirjallisuuden Seura.
Bauman, Richard (1977), Verbal Art as Performance, Illinois, Waveland Press
-----------------------(1986), Story, Performance and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral
Narratives, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
----------------------- J oel Sherzer (1974) Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, New
York, Cambridge University Press.
----------1991 A Genre in Folklore, Cultural Performance, and Popular Entertainments: A
Communications-Centered Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cahtman, Semour (1978) Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film, Ithaca,
Cornel University press.
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Fine, Elizabeth C (1984) The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print, Bloomington, Indiana
University Press.
Finnegan, Ruth (1970) Oral Literature In Africa, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Freytag, Gustav (rpt.1968) Technique of Drama An Exposition of Dramatic Composition and
Art, (tr) Elias J . Macewan, New York Benjamin Bloom inc. Bronx.
Habermas, J urgen(1989) Structural Transformation of the Public
Sphere. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
Hymes, Dell (1973) An Ethnographic Perspective, New Literary History. 5:187-201.
Honko, Lauri (1976) Genre Theory Revisited in J urikka,Tuula and J uha Pentikainen (eds) Folk
Narrative Research, Helsinki, Studia Fennica, 20:20-25.
Singer, Milton (1972) When a Great Tradition Modernizes, New York, Praeger.
Sudhakar Reddy Y.A. (2001) Ritual Performances And Theoretical Validity to Folklore: The
Case of Andhra Pradesh, in Dravidian Folk and Tribal Lore, (ed.) B. Ramakrishna Reddy,
Kuppam. Dravidian University, , pp.293-313.

------------ (2004) Folklore in Public Sphere: Reflections in Contemporary Civil Society, in
Folklore, Public Sphere and Civil Society, Eds. M.D. Muthukumaraswamy and Molly Kaushal,
Chennai, Ind.Com Press: pp. 23-36.

----------- (Co-author, R.R. Harischandra) ( 2006) Story, Performance and metaphors:
Explorations in the art form of Cindu Madigas in Simon Charsley & Laxmi Narayan Kadekar
(Eds) Performers and their Arts: Folk, Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India,
Routledge, New Delhi and London, pp. 82-100 .

------------ Performance of Caste Myth: Towards Negotiating Identities, Indian Folklore
Research Journal. Vol. 3 : No 6, December 2006: pp.66-82.








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What is field research-qualities of a field researcher, nature of folklore, fieldwork
traditions, field theories, emergence of folklore as a distinct field of research. (6)

2. Introduction Concepts:
Subjectivity/Objectivity, Validity/Reliability, Inductive, Deductive, Abductive,
reflexivity, positivism, naturalism, triangulation, Heuristics (competence),
hermeneutics (textual criticism), external and internal criticism, content analysis,
semantic and semeiotic approaches, Charles Pierce, Ferdinand de Sassaure , Derrida.
(6)

3. Pre-field Operations Notions on field and data: Knowledge resources, Technical
resources and Human resources.
What is data, nature of data, thick and thin descriptions, factors influencing
fieldwork-epistemological issues-identification ,significance of study, survey of
literature, aims and objectives, source material, formulation of theory, hypothesis,
pilot study, sampling etc, phenomenological-human( gate keepers,sponsors,
participants),Materials(financial-stay, transport,audio-video tools, Stationary, filed
notes, papers, pen, medical kits) (3)

4. Field Issues and Ethics
Gender issues, copy right, patent, plagiarism. (6)

5. Field Operations Quantitative/Qualitative Methods and techniques of data
collection, Documentation process.
Survey, observation, ethnographic, dialogical methods, questionnaires, check lists,
interviews (oral- structured and unstructured), focus group discussions, informal
gatherings. (6)

6. Post Field Operations Analysis, Synthesis and Interpretation of the data
Perspectival Issues. (6)

7. Presentation and Reporting. (3) + three internal assignments

Suggested Reading:
Atkinson, P. and M. Hammersley. 1994. Ethnography and Participant Observation. In
Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by N. K. Denzin and Y. S. Lincoln. (Thousand Oaks:
Sage): 236-247.
Bernard, H.R. 1988. Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology, London: Sage
Publications.
Bruce J ackson, 1987. Field Work, Chicago University of Illinois
Brunvand J . Harold. 1971. Folklore a Study and Research Guide.
Bulmer, M. ed (1982) Social Research Ethics, London: Macmillan.
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Burgess, R. (1984) In the field: an introduction to field research, London: Allen and Unwin.
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