They Sing Life : An Anthology of Oral Poetry of the Primitive Tribes of India

Oral poetry of selected primitive tribes of Eastern India, a region where there is a concentration of tribal communities with a rich mosaic of ethnic culture. These 'song-poems' have been arranged primarily around life-cycle rituals and the seasonal agricultural practices. The translations combine the sensibility of a major poet and the insight of an anthropologist.Mahapatra, Sitakant is the author of 'They Sing Life : An Anthology of Oral Poetry of the Primitive Tribes of India', published 2002 under ISBN 9789231037726 and ISBN 9231037722.