How Long to Read Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore

How Long Does it Take to Read Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore by Dev Nath Pathak

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

A hermeneutic engagement with Maithili folk songs allows this book to hinge upon the notions of living and dying in the contemporary world despite the admission that medicine, insurance, market, and media may condition human experiences. Amidst the binaries of union and separation, rigid religion and fluid faith, popular and folk, modernity and tradition, central to this book is the pluralism of cultural script(s) and their philosophical musings on living and dying, folk philosophy, cultural subversion as well as reconciliation. Predominantly sung by women, the folksongs of Mithila are woven around calendar of events, rites of the passage, and everyday life situations. The cultural scape of sound and sight thus conjures a fusion of epistemology and ontology, knowledge and existential being, the classical Sanskritic-textual and the folk subaltern-oral. Straddling the particular context of Maithili folksongs and the generic aspects of folk world view, steering across Hinduism, tradition and modernity, and folklore in the age of mechanical reproduction, this book contributes to the sociology and social anthropology of, inter alia, folklore, religion, gender and mythology. Moreover, this makes for a contribution into sociology and social anthropology of death in South Asia.

How long is Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore?

Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore by Dev Nath Pathak is 260 pages long, and a total of 65,000 words.

This makes it 88% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore aloud.

What Reading Level is Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore?

Living & Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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