Types of Indic Oral Tales: India, Pakistan, and Ceylon - Softcover

Stith Thompson; Warren E. Roberts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9514106458 ISBN 13: 9789514106453

Publisher: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1991

Synopsis

The authors have analysed a corpus of oral Indian narrative material containing practically all the collections published in European languages and a selection of oral tales available only in native languages. They apply the familiar taxonomy of the Types of the Folktale by Aarne and Thompson. The work supplements the earlier motif index by Thompson and Balys, The Oral Tales of India (1958), which covered "essentially the same material as the present work but index it in a different way." This time the criterion of several versions is crucial for the identification of a tale type.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academia Scientiarum Fennica
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 9514106458
• ISBN 13: 9789514106453
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 181