This book contains some 380 stories collected in the remote villages in northeast india largely untouched by external influence, this mountainous and wooded area is inhabited by people who have preserved their distinctive social organization and cultural institutions for centuries although some motifs in their mythology are known elsewhere in india, many others are unique to their culture
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Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket, 8vo, pages: xxii,448. Black cloth with spine titles in gold, glossary, bibliography, index. Light wear, almost like new, minor damage to front free end-paper where it adhered to the front paste-down. From the jacket blurb, "This book contains some three hundred and eighty stories collected in the remote villages, largely untouched by external influence, of the hitherto little known North-East Frontier Agency of India.". Seller Inventory # 002145
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