Folk Tales from Kammu I-VII | LU Humanities Lab Archive

: Folk Tales from Kammu I; Lindell, Kristina, Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin. 1977. A Kammu Story-Listener's Tales. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 33. London, Curzon Press. pp.113.

: Folk Tales from Kammu II; Lindell, Kristina. Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin. 1980. Folk Tales from Kammu II: A Story-Teller's Tales. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 40. London, Curzon Press.

: Folk Tales from Kammu III; Lindell, Kristina. Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin, eds. 1984. Folk Tales from Kammu III: Pearls of Kammu Literature. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 51. London, Curzon Press.

: Folk Tales from Kammu IV; Lindell, Kristina. Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin. 1989. Folk Tales from Kammu IV: A Master Teller's Tales. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 56. London, Curzon Press.

: Folk Tales from Kammu V; Lindell, Kristina. Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin. 1995. Folk Tales from Kammu V: A Young Story-Teller's Tales. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 66. Richmond, Curzon Press.

: Folk Tales from Kammu VI; Lindell, Kristina. Jan-Öjvind Swahn and Damrong Tayanin. 1998. Folk Tales from Kammu VI: A Teller's Last Tales. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series No. 77. Richmond, Curzon Press.

: Folk Tales from Kammu VII; The seventh, unpublished volume in the Kammu story teller series.

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Lindell Collection

Description

This series of Kammu folklore is based on an extensive set of material collected from Kammu people living in northern Thailand and Laos. The material was recorded on open-reel tape mainly during the summers of 1974 and 1976.

The ultimate goal of the project was to preserve as many Kammu stories as possible. This goal appealed to the Kammu, and they assisted in arranging story-teller seesions, keenly aware that the most of the stories would be gone in one or two decades. As a result of their enthusiasm, over 320 stories were collected.

The recordings presented here are reunited with the original publications, which were mainly in English. Efforts are being made to include the original transcriptions and accompanying illustrations.