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