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Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions
- Title
- Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions / edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | GR302 .G46 1991 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 486 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- South Asia seminar series
- Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series
- Uniform Title
- South Asia seminar series
- Publications of the American Folklore Society. New series (Unnumbered)
- Subject
- Folklore > South Asia
- Folk literature, Indic > History and criticism
- Women > South Asia > Folklore
- Sex role in literature
- Sex > South Asia > Folklore
- Power (Social sciences)
- Folklore > South Asia > History and criticism
- Sex customs > South Asia > Folklore
- Folklore > South Asia > History
- Sex customs
- Folk literature, Indic
- Folklore
- Sex
- Sex role in literature
- Women
- Folklorismus
- Frau
- Soziologie
- Volkskultur
- Volksliteratur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Volkscultuur
- Vrouwen
- Sekserol
- Macht
- Folk literature, Indic > History and criticism
- Folklore > South Asia
- Sex > South Asia > Folklore
- Women > South Asia > Folklore
- Pouvoir (sciences sociales)
- Rôle selon le sexe
- Littérature orale > Asie du Sud
- Sexisme > Dans la littérature > Histoire et critique. > Asie du Sud
- Femmes > Asie du Sud
- Folklore > Asie du Sud > Histoire et critique
- Littérature populaire > Asie du Sud > Histoire et critique
- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature
- South Asia
- Südasien
- Asie du Sud > Moeurs et coutumes
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Folklore
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Folklore.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0812230825
- 9780812230826
- 0812213378
- 9780812213379
- LCCN
- 91002711
- OCLC
- ocm23286861
- 23286861
- SCSB-1929729
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library