Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore, P. O. Bodding's 1925 ethnography from the Asiatic Society of Bengal, published across three parts through 1940, documents Santal medicine and its connection to bonga (spirit) belief, drawn from decades of the Norwegian missionary linguist's direct fieldwork among the Santal from the 1890s into the 1930s. Its strength is unmatched depth for its time from sustained fieldwork alongside Bodding's own Santal dictionaries. Its limit, stated honestly, is that Bodding wrote as a missionary seeking to translate Christian scripture into Santali, which shaped his choice and framing of vocabulary; later scholars use his material carefully for that reason, and it is not a source for any stated Santal creation account, which this material does not describe.
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P. O. Bodding's Studies in Santal Medicine and Connected Folklore, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1925 to 1940, the top tier reflecting unmatched depth for its time from decades of the Norwegian missionary linguist's direct fieldwork among the Santal. Its limit, stated honestly, is that Bodding wrote as a missionary seeking to translate Christian scripture into Santali, which shaped his choice and framing of vocabulary; later scholars use his material carefully for that reason. NotesPublished in three parts, 1925 to 1940, by the Norwegian missionary linguist P. O. Bodding, who worked among the Santal of eastern India from the 1890s into the 1930s. Documents Santal medicine and its connection to bonga (spirit) belief, alongside Bodding's wider Santal dictionaries and folk-tale collections. Bodding wrote as a missionary seeking to translate Christian scripture into Santali, which shaped his choice and framing of vocabulary; later scholars use his material carefully for that reason. Not a source for a stated creation account, which this material does not describe.
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AuthorP. O. Bodding
PublisherAsiatic Society of Bengal (Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 10, nos. 1 to 3)
Publication Year1925
URLhttps://archive.org/details/b3135869x
Source TypeEthnography
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