Manda Oral Literature

📖 Product Details

• Author : B.K. Reddy
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Central Institute of Indian Languages
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 8173421838
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8173421839
• Binding : Paperback
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 300 g 

📘 About the Book

The Kondhs constitute a homogeneous tribal group in Orissa that speak the Kui Kuvi, Pengo, Manda and Indi-Awe languages. The languages of the Kondhs have become endangered under the impact and influence of the regional major languages and their dominance in the visual electronic media. Manda Oral Literature presents the myths, festivals, rituals, life cycles and stories of the Manda-Kondhs, reflecting the socio-cultural conventions prevalent in the community, its traditional wisdom, practical knowledge, relationship with nature, worldview and philosophy of life. The documentation is a step towards . preservation of the tribal socio-cultural and linguistic heritage for posterity that in turn provides a unique identity to the community. The tribal lore collected in. the Manda Oral Literature will be immensely valuable to the Manda-Kondhs and general readers as well as to scholars of linguistics, literature, anthropology, narratology, folklore, sociology, oral history and education.

✍️ About the Author

B. Ramakrishna Reddy is a distinguished linguist, with specialisation in tribal languages and literature. He has conducted extensive linguistic Fieldwork on the tribes of central and southern India including the speakers of Kuvi, Manda, Indi-Awe, Gadaba, Irula, Parengi (Gorum), Kharia, Adivasi Oriya and Banjara (Lambadi) languages. He has held academic positions at Annamalai University, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Central Institute of Hindi, Osmania University, PS. Telugu University and Dravidian University. He has been associated with the Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh since its inception.

Prof. Reddy's publications include Kuvi Phonetic Reader (1974), Localist studies in Telugu Syntax (1986), Kuvi-Oriya-English Dictionary (1995), Kuvi Folk Literature with Oriya and English Translation (2000) and Tribal Lore of South India (2004). te has also edited Studies in Dravidian and General Linguistics (1992), Dravidian Folk and Tribal Lore (2001), Agreement in Dravidian Languages (2003), Word Structure in Dravidian (2003) and The Tribal and Minor Dravidian Languages: An International Bibliography (2005).