Dieter B Kapp

Biographic Data

ID700822
NAMEDieter B Kapp
GIVEN NAMESDieter B
FAMILY NAMEKapp
SIGNATUREKAPP D B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cologne
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX1

  • Basic Colour Terms in South Dravidian Tribal Languages

    Open AccessDieter B KappARTICLEIndo-Iranian Journal2004References: 2

    L'A. aborde dans cet article l'etude des termes de couleurs basiques dans les langues tribales dravidiennes du sud. Il revient plus particulierement sur l'etude pionniere de Berlin et Kay a ce sujet (Basic colour terms: their universality and evolution, 1969), qui repertorie 11 categories de couleurs basiques et 7 stades differents dans l'evolution de ces termes. Il commente alors les resultats obtenus par Berlin et Kay sur 4 langues dravidiennes…

  • Untying the Knot

    Dieter B Kapp, Galit Hasan-Rokem et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1999

    Untying the Knot collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle-a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand …

  • A Collection of Jaffna Tamil Riddles from Oral Tradition

    Dieter B KappARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1994Cited by: 1

    This paper presents, for the first time, a collection of nearly fifty orally transmitted Tamil riddles from Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with English translation. It also provides comparative material from Tamil Nadu, India, drawn from S. V. SUBRAMANIAN'S comprehensive Tamilil vitukataikal (1980) and gives references to Archer TAYLOR'S classificatory work English Riddles from Oral Tradition (1951). Many of the riddles presented here have no parallel among …

  • The Korkus of the Vindhya Hills

    Dieter B Kapp, Stephen M Fuch et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1991

  • "The "Ālu Kuṟumba Rāmāyaṇa

    Dieter B KappARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1989

  • Folk-Songs of the Bhils

    Dieter B Kapp, Mahipal Bhuriya et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1987

  • Paṇiya Riddles

    Dieter B KappARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1987

  • A Pālu Kuṟumba mantra for curing head-ache

    Open AccessDieter B KappARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1987References: 2

    While I was conducting linguistic and ethnographic field research among the Pālu Kuṟumbas of the Nilgiri Hills, South India, in the spring of 1976, I managed – but not without some difficulty – to obtain a single mantra from one of my main informants. In general, the manduraga:ra-s or “black magicians”, the only persons in the tribe who know mantras and use them ritually, are extremely reluctant to reveal even a particle of their secret knowledge…

  • Centralized Vowels in Ālu Kuṟumba

    Dieter B KappARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1987

  • A Parallel Motif in Lepcha and Barela-Bhilala Mythology

    Dieter B KappARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1986Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Ālu Kuṟumba riddles

    Open AccessDieter B KappARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1984References: 2

    The Ālu Kuṟumbas are a tribe of shifting cultivators, food-gatherers and (casual) hunters. Numbering about a thousand souls they inhabit the steep slopes and glens of the south-western, southern, south-eastern, and eastern ranges of the Nilgiri Hills of South India. They speak a tribal language of its own which holds a kind of mid-position between the Tamil-Malayalam and the Kannada group of the South Dravidian family of languages

  • The Concept of Yama in the Religion of a South Indian Tribe

    Dieter B KappARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1982Cited by: 1

  • Ein Menschenschopfungsmythos der Mundas und seine Parallelen

    Matthias Eder, Dieter B KappARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1978

  • Pālu Kuṟumba riddles

    Open AccessDieter B KappARTICLEBulletin of the School of…1978Cited by: 2References: 2

    1.l. From May 1974 to May 1976 I carried out field research in the Nilgiri Hills, South India, with the purpose of collecting materials on the languages, oral traditions, religious beliefs and practices, and customs of three tribal communities, the Ālu Kuṟumbas, the Pālu Kuṟumbas, and the Muḍugas.In this paper I shall present some first specimens of the language and folklore of the hitherto nearly unknown Pālu Kuṟumba tribe

  • Der strībhedavarana-khaa in der Padumāvatī des Malik Muammad Jāyasī

    Dieter B KappARTICLEIndo-Iranian Journal1975

    The present article is concerned with “the chapter of the description of the [four] categories of women”, the strībhedavarana-khaa, which comprises the stanzas 463–467 of the great romantic poem Padumāvatī. It was composed ca. 1540 A.D. by the Muslim poet Malik Muammad Jāyasī, the most significant representative of the ūfī poets of Oudh, in Old Avadhi, the language of his native country.This study opens with a general introduction about the autho…

  • Das Verbum paraba in seiner Funktion als Simplex und Explikativum in Jāyasīs Padumāvatī

    L A Schwarzschild, R K Barz et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1974