Toda songs / [edited by] M. B. Emeneau.
| Author/creator | Emeneau, M. B. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1971. |
| Description | xlviii, 1004 pages, 5 plates (1 folded) : 1 illustration, genealogical table, 3 portraits ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Bibliography ; The Todas and their songs ; The songs ; Origin and history of the songs ; The singers ; The Todas: their ethnology (Social organization ; Marriage and children ; Death and funerals ; Dairies and dairy ritual) ; The songs and the culture -- The songs. Places -- Legends and myths -- Munds and mund ceremonies -- Songs about the dead -- Ceremony of piercing the ears, wedding ceremony -- Marriage affairs, the lover-concubine institution, casual love affairs -- Miscellaneous subjects of tribal life -- Songs dreamed -- Things, seasons, and other external features of the Nilgiris -- Kotas, Badagas, the plains -- The Christian Todas and the missionaries -- Westerners, including myself -- Appendix -- Concordance of song-units. |
| General note | Parallel Toda (India) text and English translation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages xiii-xiv) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 72576557 |
| ISBN | 0198151292 |
| ISBN | 9780198151296 |
| Stock number | £11.00 |
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