Dr. Lillykutty Abraham Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous) ([email protected]) Abstract This paper attempts to delve into the art forms of the Mavilan tribe of the Kannur and Kasaragod districts of Kerala. The art forms focused in the paper include oral songs, theyyam and mangalamkali. The paper, based on ethnographic research, examines the efforts […]
Author: Drishti: the Sight
Re-contextualization and Representation of Folk Art in Advertising
Dr. Manash Pratim Goswami Associate Professor, Dept. of Media and Communication, Central University of Tamil Nadu ([email protected]) Dr. Soubhagya Ranjan Padhi Professor, Dept. of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University ([email protected]) Abstract Although art and advertising are ideologically distant apart, yet they share a close and entwined relationship. Art imitates life and […]
“Can a Pulaya Speak of His Life?”: Autobiography as Ethnography in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalk kadukalk kidayile Ente Jeevitham
Liju Jacob Kuriakose Research Scholar, Department of English, NIT Puducherry ([email protected]) Smrutisikta Mishra Assistant Professor, Department of English, NIT Puducherry ([email protected]) Abstract Autobiographies of individuals from marginalized communities have often been sites of epistemological resistances placed against the mainstream narratives of history that sideline and denigrate the former. Marginalized autobiographies thus become a recording of […]
“Can a Pulaya Speak of His Life?”: Autobiography as Ethnography in Kallen Pokkudan’s Kandalk kadukalk kidayile Ente Jeevitham
Liju Jacob Kuriakose Research Scholar, Department of English, NIT Puducherry ([email protected]) Smrutisikta Mishra Assistant Professor, Department of English, NIT Puducherry ([email protected]) Abstract Autobiographies of individuals from marginalized communities have often been sites of epistemological resistances placed against the mainstream narratives of history that sideline and denigrate the former. Marginalized autobiographies thus become a recording of […]