CONTENTS
1. From Tigermen to Tourism: Shifting Metaphors.
2. The Ka Lukhmi: A Khasi Rice Myth.
3. Poetry, Lore and Language: The Khasi Phawar Tradition.
4. Of Memory and Stones.
5. Why Folklore? Image Creation and Perception.
6. Fading Notes: The Muin-Playing Women of the Khasis.
7. When the Stones Crumbles.
8. The Khasi Weretiger: Reanimating a Sacred Forest Metaphor.
9. The Thaiang Encounter: Reanimating A Sacred Forest.
10. Narratives and the Bhoi Subaltern Paradigms.
11. Folk Performing Arts: The Dance Form.
12. Culture Quest: Towards A Living Art Tradition.
13. The Golden Vine: Chanted Narratives from the Land of the Seven Huts.
14. In Search of Tigermen: The Were- Tiger Tradition of the Khasis.
15. Folktales: The Hynniew Trep Template.
16. Shillong Speakeasy: Urband Folk Speech.
17. Colonial Myth Making and Folklore.
18. Oral Frames of References: Khasi Myths Chanting and Perspectives of Definition.
19. Globalizations and Folklore: The Khasi Perspective.
20. Poetry of the Oral Tradition.
21. Collection and Codification of Oral Literature: Configuring the Khasi Paradigms.
22. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales -I.
23. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales -II.
24. Meaning and Metaphors in Tales: The Iconoc Trickster.