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Write short note on the following with a sociological perspective : Interaction of ‘little tradition’ and ‘great tradition’.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Perspectives on the Study of Indian Society

Robert Redfield, generalising from his Mexican fieldwork in Peasant Society and Culture (1956), proposed that a civilisation carries two traditions: a great tradition, the reflective, textual culture of the literate few cultivated in temples, schools and courts, and a little tradition, the largely oral culture of the unlettered many, lived in village ritual and folklore.…

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