When Generous Gods Offer "Backhoe-Arm Load of Gems"*: Folk Ideas Found among Gem Miners of the Sabaragamuwa Region

• প্রধান লেখক: Lal Medawattegedara (লেখক)
• বিন্যাস: গ্রন্থ
• প্রকাশিত: The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• বিষয়গুলি: article
• অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: Connect to this object online.

Global research into folkloric speech acts, like folktales, folksongs and folk drama, have revealed a rich body of concealed cultural conventions and concepts, prompting the folklorist Alan Dundes to identify such events as 'autobiographical ethnography,' or the way in which a group of peo...