(University of Hyderabad, 1998-05-01)
Sreemannarayana Murthy, D.
The symbolic and expressive forms, which one can call folklore have their
primary existence in the action of the people, and are rooted in the social and
cultural life of those people. This study will be significant because, the emphasis
will be on the aspects of context, which invariably based on field work, with
primary focus on "oral tradition". The significance of the contextual variation of
the performances can be grouped notably into three types ; functional, situational
and cultural. They are denotative of the inter-relationship that exists between the
chindu performers and their intra and their intra and inter cultural groups
Depending on the context, the texts concomitantly vary in tune with the
situations. The analysis of the texts manifest three types of texts which exist in
the narrative tradition of chindus. They are - oral text, performance text, and
written text. The segmentation of these texts into three do not categorically deny
the inter-play between them and infact some times appear correlative and in some
other times, remain parallel. The community's existence from the time
immemorial shows the dynamics of texts and context inter-play, which potentially
communicate poly-meaningful performance tradition