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    This document summarizes and analyzes verbal folklore traditions in Andhra Pradesh, India. It discusses how folklore encompasses various cultural expressions that reveal how human groups adapt to their environments over space and time. Studies of Indian folklore combine literacy and orality to understand cultural practices. Folklore ensures the continuity of Indian culture and strengthens marginalized communities by documenting traditions like storytelling, crafts, and performances that articulate cultural identities. However, forces of globalization now threaten these traditions, so documenting and raising awareness of folklore is important to prevent the erasure of communities based on oral traditions.

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    This document summarizes and analyzes verbal folklore traditions in Andhra Pradesh, India. It discusses how folklore encompasses various cultural expressions that reveal how human groups adapt to their environments over space and time. Studies of Indian folklore combine literacy and orality to understand cultural practices. Folklore ensures the continuity of Indian culture and strengthens marginalized communities by documenting traditions like storytelling, crafts, and performances that articulate cultural identities. However, forces of globalization now threaten these traditions, so documenting and raising awareness of folklore is important to prevent the erasure of communities based on oral traditions.

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    E D I T O R I A L

    “NARRATIVE TRADITIONS” AND


    “FOLKTALES OF ANDHRA PRADESH”
    Y.A. SUDHAKAR REDDY and P.S. KANAKA DURGA

    Y.A. SUDHAKAR REDDY, Professor and Head, the ethos of the country wherever folk cultures are
    University of Hyderabad, Centre for Folk Culture still alive and have contributed immensely to the
    Studies, S.N. School, Hyderabad. notion of nation.

    P.S. KANAKA DURGA, Reader, Centre for Folk Tale telling is a folk practice that not only reveals
    Culture Studies, School of Social Sciences, the worldview of the tellers and their stock
    University of Hyderabad audience but also strengthens their bonds as a
    community. The whole process of performance

    T
    of tale telling articulates the identity of the folk
    he folklore of India in general and Andhra
    community. The papers on “Narrative Traditions”
    Pradesh in particular encompasses various
    and “Folktales of A.P.” included in this issue are
    aspects of expressive behaviour as a dialogue
    an attempt to describe and analyze the verbal
    between human groups and their physical and
    expressive traditions of communities practising
    social environments. These manifold cultural forms
    the folk arts in Andhra Pradesh. The articles on
    are information banks and communication systems
    the different verbal and non-verbal art traditions
    that explicate the spatio-temporal dynamics of
    of Andhra Pradesh such as Burra Katha, Oggu
    adaptive processes. Folklore studies from the Indian
    Katha, Pagativesham, toy making and metal craft
    perspective perhaps lies in the amalgamation of in this issue attest the fact that these are still living
    the hegemonic model based on literacy and the traditions of the Telugu speaking people.
    mnemonic model grounded in orality. The former
    brings out the linear structural paradigms innately In the wake of globalization, however, communities
    represented in cultural expressive traditions and practising these arts are being marginalized and
    the latter reveals the non-linear and hyper-textual struggling to retain their own identity. ‘Giving
    structural patterns that form the cultural behaviours back to the people what we have taken from them
    of the Indian populace. and what rightfully belongs to them’ is the ethical
    and moral basis of the study of folklore. This self-
    The study of folklore, therefore, is vital for consciousness, if developed, would benefit various
    hermeneutic, ideological and philosophical folk groups that are often stereotyped as illiterate
    reasons. Hermeneutically, it combines literacy with and backward. Already, the forces of modernity as
    orality and analyses Indian culture by juxtaposing represented in the new socio-economic formations
    written records with oral records in hyper-textual regulated by the global capitalist market have re-
    formats. Ideologically, it ensures the continuity of codified existing language systems and semiotics
    cognizance of Indian culture preventing interference through the electronic media and eclipsed the
    of global agencies that try to superimpose universal communities that were based on orality. To prevent
    cultural models over people. Philosophically, it this, the new generation needs to be sensitized
    strengthens cultural practices of non-hegemonic through the publication of such newsletters and
    and marginalized communities that have sustained other means. Hence, this humble attempt. ❆

    INDIAN FOLKLIFE SERIAL NO.29 JUNE 2008

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