Proverbs, Caste and Gender
Studying the Interface between Proverbs and Human Relations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18950973 |
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| Authors | S Simon John (Address for Communication: Associate Professor, Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Rono Hills, Doimukh, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh-791 111., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-46 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oriental Anthropologist A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0972-558X • E-ISSN: 0976-3430 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0972558x1501500103 |
| OpenAlex | W4299558358 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Proverb, the shortest form of cultural expression and wisdom tradition, plays a significant role in most of the traditional societies. Exploring proverbs in a particular socio- cultural context is the gateway to understand the perceptions of people in a given society. This paper in an attempt to analyze certain proverbs that are collected through fieldwork in Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu and tries to find out how proverbs reflects the human relationship: between castes, and between men and women in a given society
Caste · Linguistics · Political science · Sociology · Tamil · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
| Highly cited | No |
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