Date-Palm and Date-Lore of Bengal

ISBN-13: 9783659120169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 56 str.

Monanjali Bandyopadhyay; Kalyan Chakraborti

Opis

Folklore, in fact, is the Language of Root and the Song of Soil, that is originated in the ceop fields and meadows, in the trees and creepers and in the minds of human beings. This unknown, unlighted life culture and mind culture is mostly agriculture based. The tremendous riches of folk knowledge on agriculture is unrevealed under the cover of scientific wisdom. The culture allied to procurement of food is Farmlore. It is the base, and different super structures are created on it. Language, religion, superstition, ritual, dress, art, song, dance, festivals, etc are originated based on ground production. There is a close-set linkage between knowledge and farmlore. both farmlore and indigenous knowledge are the traditional-bound resources of the folk people, so these are seen to be integrated in an unique fashion. Dr. Monanjali Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Kalyan Chakraborti, well known couple in the field of Folklore research, had traveled in the riches of farmlore pertaining to date-sugar-palm of Bengal through participatory rural folk appraisal. This treatise is the joint harvest of them through their direct and integrated field investigation among the Seuli-folk of Bengal.

O autorze

Monanjali born in Kolkata in 1973, early schooling from there, passed MA in Bengali from Calcutta University in 1997 followed by B Ed in 1999 and awarded PhD in Folklore from Kalyani University in 2006. Presently she is an Assistant Professor in Oral Literature in Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal. She is an eminent Folklorist.