Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

10/1/1982 - 6/30/1983

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Indian Oral Tales (from the Kannada region): Texts and Contexts

FAIN: RL-20336-82

Attipat K. Ramanujan
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)

To support completion of a translation and study of some 400 folktales from thevillage of Kannada in South India. The work presents this rich collection of tales in the context of their meaning to those who tell them and of variations of the stories in different cultures and places.