This volume presents two examples of ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds of the Marathi-language region of India. The extensive introduction discusses the literary art of the ovis and the cosmology, geography, society, administrative structures, economy, and values of their performers' world.
This volume presents two examples of ovi, a genre typical of the oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds of the Marathi-language region of India. The extensive introduction discusses the literary art of the ovis and the cosmology, geography, society, administrative structures, economy, and values of their performers' world.