We Tell A Folk Tale

The documentation of folklore has the ability to manipulate and coerce our perceptions and attitudes toward a certain folk culture. It has immense potential and prospects to offer an effective representation of issues and situations that surround the everyday life of certain folk cultures. They are a powerful medium for the generation of localized content specific to the values and lifestyles of various communities. Many folk documentations are devoted to recording the extinctions and disappearances of folk items. Folk art forms in India are prevalent in numerous forms. In this modern age, even a tribe that tries to keep its tradition and culture intact is bound to make some changes in its existing culture so that it can adapt itself to the demand of time. In this age of globalization and liberalization, no civilized tribe/community can isolate itself from others. But, consequently, the community may lose gradually their inherent traits in that process of adaptation. So, apart from the specific physical features what distinguishes a particular tribe from others, is its folk culture. Folk culture acts as an identity of the particular tribe. However globalized or civilized a tribe may be, there are some remnants of ancient culture among them and generally, they try to make it alive, because, these are the basis of the existence of the tribe concerned. We tell a Folk Tale seeks to capture and preserve the intangible cultural heritage of people groups through written, audio, and video archives. The goal is to preserve these practices and to make them a focus of study, as a way of valuing people around the world who rightly want to see their unique expressions and identities recognized and valued as part of the human record. The first step of documenting intangible heritage is to capture it while protecting its ownership. At this juncture, special preference is given to traditional indigenous knowledge.