Annotated Texts in Beṭṭa Kurumba

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37822-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 652 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages

Betta Kurumba is a Dravidian language spoken in the Nilgiri and Waynad Hills of India. Annotated Texts in Betta Kurumba presents folktales and dialogues in this language, together with a grammatical sketch and a glossary. These interlinearised texts provide rich data for linguistic analysis, as well as some of the earliest published cultural information about a highly understudied ethnic group. The cultural information is presented, for the most part, by the Betta Kurumbas themselves, who speak in their own native language about aspects of their lifestyle, spiritual beliefs, and social organization into clans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coelho, Gail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Symbols and Abbreviations

1 Introduction
1.1 General Overview
1.2 Overview of the Language
1.3 Grammatical Information
1.4 The Physical and Social Context
1.5 The Texts in This Book

Part 1 Folktales

2 Prelude to the Folktales
2.1 General Overview
2.2 The Storytellers
2.3 The Folktales in English Translation

3 The Turban Maker

4 The Fish Prince

5 The Offended Daughter

6 The Prince Who Subdivided Himself

Part 2 Dialogues

7 Prelude to the Dialogues
7.1 General Overview
7.2 Cultural Background
7.3 The Dialogues in English Translation

8 Aspects of Community Life
8.1 Catching Fish
8.2 Cooking Fish
8.3 Gathering Forest Honey
8.4 Building Houses
8.5 The Head of the Clan
8.6 The binji: a Spirit Invocation Ritual
8.7 Working with Elephants
8.8 An Encounter with a Wild Bear
8.9 Traditional Healing

9 Legends about Deities

10 Legends about Ancestors

Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gail Coelho, Ph.D. (2003, University of Texas at Austin), is Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Delhi. She has several publications in language analysis and documentation, including The Re-emergence of Finite Serial Verbs in South Dravidian (Walter de Gruyter, 2012).