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Dear Colleagues, Greetings from the National Folklore Support Centre! National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC), Chennai, ( http://www.indianfolklore.org/ ) is dedicated to the promotion of Indian folklore research, education, training, networking, and publications. We are happy to announce three new publications which could be of interest to folklorists. The first is a colourful "Vagri Material Culture - Resource Book for the Vagri Community." Vagris or the Narikuruvas are an ethnic nomadic community largely settled in South India. This photographic documentation uses both English and Vagri and is aimed at facilitating the Vagris in visualising their own culture, in addition to forming a repository of their cultural knowledge. By S. Bhakthavatsala Bharathi. Price: Rs.800 in India; US$40 rest of the world. Know more at http://wiki.indianfolklore.org/index.php?title=Vagri_Material_Culture_-_A_Resource_book_for_the_Vagri_Community_by_S._Bhakthavatsala_Bharathi The second, "Playing with the Children of the Forest" authored by Ksheerasagar. The book deals with revisiting the lives of the Jenukuruba children of Girijan Haadi, in Karnataka, South India, 15 years after the author wrote about them first. The Jenukurubas are a tribe whose lives are one with the forests where they dwell.The children open themselves to completely different dimensions of learning about the mysteries of nature. The book paints a bitter-sweet picture of a childhood marred by displacement from their seat of learning and livelihood -- the forests, Price: Rs.250 in India; Rest of the world: US$10. More on this book at http://www.wiki.indianfolklore.org/index.php?title=Playing_with_the_children_of_the_forest_by_Ksheerasagar _ "Learning and Embodying Caste, Class and Gender -- Patterns of Childhood in Rural Tamil Nadu," is based on ethnographic research carried out amongst children and youths in a rural low caste village in South India. By offering a new perspective on the current debates on children and childhood in South Asia, the western categories and assumptions on childhood are questioned and challenged. Based on factors such as caste and class, and ethnicity, these ethnographic insights deconstruct ideas of a pan Indian model of childhood. By Gabriele Alex; Price : Rs.400 in India; US$15 elsewhere. To buy visit http://www.wiki.indianfolklore.org/index.php?title=Learning_and_Embodying_Caste,_Class_and_Gender:_Patterns_of_Childhood_in_Rural_Tamil_Nadu_by_Gabriele_Alex [Message posted by Subhashini Sen, Programme Officer (Publications & Communications) National Folklore Support Centre, India.]
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