RELEVANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PROVERBS AMONG THE LIMBOOS OF SIKKIM: A SOCIOCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
Keywords:
Proverbs, Limboo, folklore, tradition, society, community, tribe, culture.Abstract
The study aims to understand and examine the significance and relevance of proverbs among the Limboos of Sikkim from a socio-cultural lens. Even amidst a cultural mosaic of various communities in Sikkim, Limboo tribe enjoys a distinct socio-cultural identity exhibited often through their vast and rich oral tradition. Since Limboo proverbs have been transmitted orally for generations, they bear the socio-cultural traces from the past. Proverbs reflect the collective perception and attitude of the tribe towards life and all the phenomena of the world around them. In addition, Limboo proverbs are also a manifestation of their ancestral knowledge that has relevance even today in everyday life of the Limboos as is evident from the way proverbs have been preserved as an opulent piece of folklore tradition and used widely by Limboos in their everyday conversation.References
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