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Publication details [#35117]

Hockings, Paul. 1988. Council from the ancients: A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens, and curses. (Trends in Linguistics Documentation 4). De Gruyter Mouton. xiv + 796 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This book constitutes an encyclopedic study of folk sayings, one specific genre of oral literature of the Badagas, a nonliterate Dravidian group living in the Nilgiri Hills of South India.

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