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as "A FREUDIAN FOLKLORISTIC ES TALES OF ROW AND SPARROW Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/twotalesofcrowsp0000dund Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow A Freudian Folkloristic Essay on Caste and Untouchability ALAN DUNDES ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Lanham « Boulder + New York * Oxford ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706 12 Hid’s Copse Road Cummor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ, England Copyright © 1997 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dundes, Alan. Two tales of crow and sparrow : a freudian folkloristic essay on caste and untouchability / Alan Dundes. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8476-8456-3 (cloth : alk. paper). — ISBN 0-8476-8457-1 (paper : alk. paper) 1. Caste—India. 2. Untouchables—India. 3. Psychoanalysis and folklore— India. I. Title. DS422.C3D77 1997 305.5’ 122’0954—dce21 97-25277 ISBN 0-8476-8456-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 0-8476-8457-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) Printed in the United States of America ™ © The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. This essay is dedicated to the memory of A. K. Ramanujan: poet, linguist, folklorist, Indologist for the world, but to me, fellow graduate student, dear lifelong friend, and the person who first aroused my curiosity about India. “I regard untouchability as the greatest blot on Hinduism. . . . If we do not cleanse ourselves of this cursed untouchability, Hinduism and Hindus are bound to perish.” M. K. Gandhi, Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Press, 1964), pp. 21, 41. Contents Preface Acknowledgments Two Tales of Crow and Sparrow Caste Untouchability The First Tale of Crow and Sparrow The Second Tale of Crow and Sparrow Analysis of the Tales The Bodily Origin of Caste Defecation Habits Freudian Theory in India Toilet Training in India The Crackdown Paradox The Cow Anomaly Sati (Suttee) and the Theory of Leftovers Breaking the Rules Gypsy Defilement as Marginal Survival Conclusions Bibliography About the Author |
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