Book
The folk-tales of the Garos
University of Gauhati, Department of Publications • (4) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 11, 392
By: Rongmuthu, Dewansingh Shangma.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This collection of Garo folk tales consists of orally transmitted fables, mythology, traditional accounts, and other forms of oral literature. Rongmuthu, a Garo and not a trained anthropologist, recorded them as told by the informants. The tales reflect a considerable amount of data in the sphere of religious beliefs and ideas about nature and man. The author's footnotes contain valuable information.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Literary texts
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnozoology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; Sigrid Khera ; 1970-1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Meghalaya State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- compiled by Dewan Sing Rongmuthu ; with a foreword by B. K. Barua
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74294688
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)