Ethnographic Datas of Karisal Land in Gopalla Gramam Novel

Abstract

The intellectual anthropology that studies human beings examines human beings and human society at three levels: biological anthropology, social anthropology, and cultural anthropology. It is ethnography to trace the culture of a particular group of people in Tamilnadu, where different cultures and customs prevail. In that respect, the purpose of this study is to find ethnographic data in the novel Gopalla Gramam by the author K. Rajanarayanan, based on the biographies of the people of the Karisal area. In this study, the concepts like "what is ethnography? What are the cultural researchers' references to data to identify them? How are the data on food, artefacts, beliefs, customs, agriculture, plants, animals, birds, land, water, vernaculars, stories, songs, etc., recorded in the Gopalla Gramam novel to define the ethnography of the Karisal soil" have been identified. How they represent the uniqueness and identity of the black soil is also under scrutiny.