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Article: The Folk-Tales of Burma. An Introduction. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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- June 1, 2002
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The Folk-Tales of Burma. An Introduction
G. ABBOTT
KHIN THANT HAN
Leiden/Boston/Koln: Brill (Handbuch der Orientalistik III vol. 11), 2000. Pp. xiv, 392. Illustrations, Bibliography, Ethnological Notes, Index.
The authors/collators of the folktales in this book are preoccupied with classification. In Part I of the book (pp. 3-50), entitled 'Frame of Reference', they distinguish between folk tales and other types of stories (e.g. myths, legends, fairy tales); next they create a typology for Burmese folk tales (phenomena tales; wonder tales; trickster tales; guidance tales [lay, clerical]; compound tales; human origins). They describe ...