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Title Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions / edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1991]
©1991

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Description x, 486 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm
Series Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series
South Asia seminar series
Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
South Asia seminar series.
Contents 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 Hiltebeitel -- The powers of parody in Nayaka-period Tanjavur / Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Folk literature -- South Asia -- History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indic -- History and criticism.
Folklore -- South Asia -- History and criticism.
Folklore -- South Asia -- History.
Folklore -- South Asia.
Sex role in literature -- History and criticism.
Sex role in literature -- South Asia -- History and criticism.
Sex role in literature.
Sex role -- South Asia -- In literature -- History and criticism.
Sex -- South Asia -- Folklore.
Power (Social sciences)
Women -- South Asia -- Folklore.
Author Appadurai, Arjun, 1949-
Korom, Frank J.
Mills, Margaret Ann.
LC no. 91002711
ISBN 0812213378 (paperback: acid-free paper)
0812230825 (cloth : acid-free paper)