Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
1st Edition
Published on 21. December 2015
464 pages
978-1-5128-2132-1 (ISBN)
Description
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 illus.
File size
1,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-2132-1 (9781512821321)
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Arjun Appadurai | Frank J. Korom | Margaret A. Mills
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
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07/1991
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Persons
Arjun Appadurai is the Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Frank J. Korom is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Boston University. Margaret A. Mills is a folklorist and Professor Emerita of the Department of Near East Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I: Gender: Voices and Lives
- 1. Toward a Counter-System: Women's Tales
- 2. Gender and Verbal Performance Style in Afghanistan
- 3. The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto
- 4. Gender and Illusion in a Rajasthani Yogic Tradition
- 5. Kin Songs
- Part II: Genres: Identification and Identity
- 6. Genre and Community in the Folklore System of Chhattisgarh
- 7. Why Does Ram Swarup Sing? Song and Speech in the North Indian Epic ?hola
- 8. Wandering Lost: A Landless Laborer's Sense of Place and Self
- 9. The Cosmogonic Riddles of Lalan Fakir
- 10. Footpath Poets of Peshawar
- Part III: Tradition: Persistence and Divergence
- 11. The Popularization and Transformation of the Light-Classical Urdu Ghazal-Song
- 12. Aesthetics, Performance, and the Enactment of Tradition in a Fiji Indian Community
- 13. Hanging in the Balance: Rama in the Shadow Puppet Theater of Kerala
- 14. The Folklore of Draupadi: Saris and Hair
- 15. The Powers of Parody in Nayaka-Period Tanjavur
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index
