The Cow Who Fell To Earth

A mysterious vistor has landed - a little cow who desperagtely wants to go home. How do you find your way home when nobody can understand a word you're saying?

"Science fiction/fantastic novel involving balloon travel across the Pacific and USA. Lands at one stage in Australia ... Includes brief description of how hero learnt the natives' language and his wandering around Sydney before flying to San Francisco" -- Bookseller's catalogue.

Cameroon is an African nation with a vast history. Its rich geology includes volcanoes, tropical areas, coastal waters, hot springs, plateaus, mountains, and rain forests. Take your readers on a journey that visits both Cameroon's history and its current state. Readers learn of its struggles, triumphs, and political culture. Cameroon's economy, environmental policies, conservation efforts, and variety of wildlife are examined. Readers will experience a rich presentation of this country's lifestyles, religious practices, festivals, and culinary offerings.

The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare example in English of Indigenous ethnic literature from China. Transmitted in oral and written forms for centuries among the Nuosu, The Book of Origins is performed by bimo priests and other tradition-bearers. Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizes itself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment. A comprehensive introduction to the translation describes the land and people, summarizes the work’s themes, and discusses the significance of The Book of Origins for the understanding of folk epics, ethnoecology, and ethnic relations.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mala masti is a satellite dalit community that traditionally depends on the central Mala caste for its survival and sustenance. It is surprising to notice the paucity of works on such satellite-dependent castes in the Indian caste system. While the system itself is founded on structured inequalities drawn in to hierarchized and stratified arrangement, interestingly, the castes at the bottom too exhibit such a hierarchy. These satellite dalit communities are insulted, abused with derogatory terms by the central castes that are themselves much discriminated, and excluded from the mainstream. Such a situation generated much confusion as to their position in the caste hierarchy, bringing into focus mutual claims and counterclaims for superior position. This study brings to light the fact that the ambiguous position of these dalit satellite castes keeps the entire system intact without being critically questioned by those at the bottom, as they are always at loggerheads with other castes at the bottom for a claim of superiority. In this background examination of the position of Mala masti, vis--vis the central Mala caste and others in the system, would certainly bring out facts that are not given full focus in the earlier studies.