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Some Tamil folklore texts: Muttuppaṭṭaṉ Katai, Kāttavarāyaṉ Kataippaṭal, Paḻaiyaṉur Nīli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Kamil V. Zvelebil
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The following contribution is based on several assumptions: First, it is assumed that the oral traditions of verbal art, whether “fixed” in writing/print or not, belong legitimately to the bulk of a national literature; second, it is assumed that such oral traditions have been grossly neglected, misunderstood and/or misinterpreted; third, when speaking of a “tradition”, what I have in mind is not an authoritative dogmatism based on set doctrines, but a fountain-source from which stems a continuous stream of thought and culture, irrespective of whether it is orally transmitted, or fixed in literary texts.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 121 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 290 - 303
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1989

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