摘要：In this short book, the author makes the case that what she calls “colonial folkloristics”
deserves recognition in and of itself for its contribution to the development
of the field of folklore studies as a truly transnational and global discipline before
the concepts of transnationalism and globalization were even being discussed in
relation to the human and social sciences. To make this point concrete, Naithani
draws on historical data pertaining to both India and Africa, and to a far lesser
extent, Australia. In each location, she draws on published volumes of folklore collections
(primarily folktales) as well as archival materials consisting of unpublished
papers and correspondence.
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