Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions / edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills.
Contributor(s): Appadurai, Arjun
| Korom, Frank J | Mills, Margaret Ann
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TextSeries: Publications of the American Folklore Society: ; South Asia seminar series: Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: x, 486 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0812230825 (cloth : acidfree paper); 0812213378 (pbk. : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Folklore -- South Asia -- History and criticism | Folk literature -- South Asia -- History and criticism | Women -- South Asia -- Folklore | Sex role in literature -- History and criticism | Sex -- South Asia -- Folklore | Power (Social sciences)DDC classification: 398/.095 LOC classification: GR302 | .G46 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toward a counter-system : women's tales / A. K. Ramanujan -- Gender and verbal performance style in Afghanistan / Margaret A. Mills -- The role of suffering in women's performance of Paxto / Benedicte Grima -- Gender and illusion in a Rajasthani Yogic tradition / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Kin songs / Peter J. Claus -- Genre and community in the folklore system of Chhattisgarh / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Why does Ram Swarup sing? : Song and speech in the North Indian Epic Dhola / Susan S. Wadley -- Wandering lost : a landless laborer's sense of place and self / Margaret Trawick -- The cosmogonic riddles of Lalan Fakir / Carol Salomon -- Footpath poets of Peshawar / Wilma L. Heston -- The popularization and transformation of the light-classical Urdu Ghazal-song / Peter Manuel -- Aesthetics, performance, and the enactment of tradition in a Ruji Indian community / Donald Brenneis -- Hanging in the balance : Rama in the shadow puppet theater of Kerala / Stuart H. Blackburn -- The folklore of Draupadi : saris and hair / Alf Hiltebeitæl -- The powers of parody in Nayaka-period Tanjavur / Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman.