Mango culture as depicted in Gambhira folklore
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Mango culture as depicted in Gambhira folklore Md Najmus Saadat . Selim Jahangir
. Krishnendu Gupta
Accepted: 11 October 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract The folklores are the exclusive manifestation of symbiosis between folk and environment for any ethnic group which portray the way of folk life. The Gambhira cultural milieu is built around religious beliefs and the focal theme is centered on God Shiva. The study aims to explain how the mango culture is deeply associated with the livelihoods of people of Malda that have been cited and illuminated in Gambhira folklore. Mango is the principal as well as traditional fruit crop of the district. The crop has a wide range of acceptability amongst the masses. This descriptive study found that mango culture has profound influence on the livelihoods of the people belonging in different socio-economic strata encompassing basket makers to international traders. This exotic crop is so deeply entrenched in the cultural dimension of rural people of Malda that a number of folklores portraying the happiness, sorrow and
M. N. Saadat K. Gupta Department of Geography, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal 731235, India e-mail: [email protected] K. Gupta e-mail: [email protected] S. Jahangir (&) Transdisciplinary Centre for Qualitative Methods (TCQM), Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, Karnataka 576104, India e-mail: [email protected]
melancholy associated with its cultural operation, production, trade and economy took the place of pride and centrality in everyday amusement events. In addition to the socio-economic significance, this exotic fruit crop has religious-cultural relevance in everyday lives of the people. No doubt, the mango is the economic base while the Gambhira forms the socio-cultural base for this geographic milieu. The duo cultures cannot go differently and indeed represent the region to the outer world. Keywords Folk culture Mango culture Gambhira Gambhira folklore Gambhira culture Gambhira culture region
Introduction Folk life refers to the holistic study of folk culture. It has both material such as pottery, baskets, musical instruments, and many other indigenous human made artefacts and non-material such as music, beliefs, traditions, customs, cultural practices, and oral histories components. Folk life research in geography, though folk culture is not new in the discipline, gained impetus in 1970s with cultural turn in geography. The geographers including feminist scholars (see Hopkins 2009; Hopkins and Noble 2009; Massey 1995; McDowell 1999; Pini 2005) also emphasised the
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significance of folk life, ‘everyday’ landscape and folk landscapes in geography (Jackson 1984; Meinig 1979; Wilson and Groth 2003; Heyd 2014; Fellmann et al. 2002). It is, however, a field offering cultural geographers numerous new prospects for interdisciplinary investigation. The regional geographers have applied geographical method
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