RINGS OF CORAL, MOKEN FOLKTALES   By : Ivanoff, Jacques   (Bangkok, 2001)   478 pp., 8 pp. illus. in col., 11 pp. maps + charts, 150 x 210 mm, pbk  Weight  0.680 Kg   Code :  E22226     Price :  US$23.00 Order book click....
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Ivanoff, Jacques; Rings of Coral: Moken Folktales This is the first compilation of the oral literature of the Moken, the sea gypsies of the Andaman Sea. Virtually unknown to scholars, except for a few collected in 1838 by Hugo Barnetzik, the stories presented here, of a total of 100, were specially revealed by the Moken to Jacques Ivanoff, the foremost scholar on the Moken, who has here retold and analyzed them. The stories deal with the Mokens’ historical roots, the creation of Moken society and its flourishing; folk tales, myths and spirit songs. These stories are essential to understand the Moken society and its survival until now, in an ecological and cultural niche. Additional stories recorded by observers are also listed.