Kharmawphlang, Desmond L. <br/><br/>
Essays in Khasi Folkloristics / 
by Desmond L. Kharmawphlang 
 - 1st Edition 
 - Shillong:  Ri Khasi Book Agency,  2016. 
 - 240p.  25cm. 
<br/><br/> CONTENTS<br/>1. From Tigermen  to Tourism: Shifting Metaphors.<br/>2. The Ka Lukhmi: A Khasi Rice Myth.<br/>3. Poetry, Lore and Language: The Khasi Phawar Tradition.<br/>4. Of Memory and Stones.<br/>5. Why Folklore? Image Creation and Perception.<br/>6. Fading Notes: The Muin-Playing Women of the Khasis.<br/>7. When the Stones Crumbles.<br/>8. The Khasi Weretiger: Reanimating a Sacred Forest Metaphor.<br/>9. The Thaiang Encounter: Reanimating A Sacred Forest.<br/>10. Narratives and the Bhoi Subaltern Paradigms.<br/>11. Folk Performing Arts: The Dance Form.<br/>12. Culture Quest: Towards A Living Art Tradition.<br/>13. The Golden Vine: Chanted Narratives from the Land of the Seven Huts.<br/>14. In Search of Tigermen: The Were- Tiger Tradition of the Khasis.<br/>15. Folktales: The Hynniew Trep Template.<br/>16. Shillong Speakeasy: Urband Folk Speech.<br/>17. Colonial Myth Making and Folklore.<br/>18. Oral Frames of References: Khasi Myths Chanting and Perspectives of Definition.<br/>19. Globalizations and Folklore: The Khasi Perspective.<br/>20. Poetry of the Oral Tradition.<br/>21. Collection and Codification of Oral Literature: Configuring the Khasi Paradigms.<br/>22. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales -I.<br/>23. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales -II.<br/>24. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales: The Iconoc Trickster. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9788193181003 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Folklore
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>398  / KHA