Untying the Knot
Subtitle: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
Contributors: Galit Hasan-Rokem (Editor); David Shulman (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 31, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780195108569
First sentence: The Gonds of central India perform a ritual when a member of their tribe is dying: at night, the adult men divide into two groups and gather at the boundary of the village; one group chants riddles to the beat of a drum, and the other group searches for the answers.