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| #2713480 in Books | 2012-12-31 | 2012-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.90 x5.90l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A True Gift for All Readers|By Jane Rumph|Xavier Romero-Frias, the premier authority on Maldivian anthropology, has given us another gift in his new book, Folk Tales of the Maldives. The author of the acclaimed 1999 ethnography, The Maldive Islanders: A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom, has now compiled and translated 80 folk tales from the Dhivehi cultu|About the Author|Xavier Romero-Frias is the world's foremost authority in the language and anthropology of the Maldives.
The Maldives are mainly known as an equatorial tourist paradise to the south of India but some will know the archipelago risks drowning owing to global warming. Far less is known about the people, who have occupied these islands for millennia but whose deep indigenous culture is today under threat from a multitude of external forces.
This volume is a collection of 80 traditional short stories and legends selected from the large corpus of stories in the local ora...
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