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South Asian Folklore in Transition

The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the nineteenth century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the discipline of folklore and folklife. This fortunately changed in the 1980s when a newly energized group of younger scholars, who were interested in a variety of new approaches that went beyond the textual interface, returned to folklore as an untapped resource in South Asian Studies.

This comprehensive volume further reinvigorates the field by providing fresh studies and new models both for studying the lore and the life of everyday people in the region, as well as their engagement with the world at large. By bringing Muslims, material culture, diasporic horizons, global interventions and politics to bear on South Asian folklore studies, the authors hope to stimulate more dialogue across theoretical and geographical borders to infuse the study of the Indian Subcontinents cultural traditions with a new sense of relevance that will be of interest not only to areal specialists but also to folklorists and anthropologists in general.

This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Frank J. Korom is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Boston University, USA. He specializes in the cultures of South Asia and the diasporas derived from the region. He is the author and/or editor of ten books, most recently The Anthropology of Performance (2013).

Leah K. Lowthorp is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Folklore at the University of Oregon, USA. Her work spans the impact of global cultural policy on artist communities in South Asia, community advocacy and the arts, and the digital folklore of human reproductive and genetic technologies. She has authored several articles and book chapters on these topics.

South Asian History and Culture

DavidWashbrook-University of Cambridge, UK
BoriaMajumdar-University of Central Lancashire, UK
SharmisthaGooptu-South Asia Research Foundation, India
NalinMehta-La Trobe University, Melbourne

This series offers a forum that will provide an integrated perspective on the field at large. It bring together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restricted to, their particular fields of interest and specialization. Such an approach is critical to any expanding field of study, for the development of more informed and broader perspectives, and of more overarching theoretical conceptions.

The series achieves a multidisciplinary forum for the study of South Asia under the aegis of established disciplines (e.g. history, politics, gender studies) combined with more recent fields (e.g. sport studies, sexuality studies). A focus is also to make available to a broader readership new research on film, media, photography, medicine and the environment, which have to date remained more specialized fields within South Asian studies.

A significant concern for the series is to focus across the whole of the region known as South Asia, and not simply on India, as most South Asia forums inevitably tend to do. We are most conscious of this gap in South Asian studies and work to bring into focus more scholarship on and from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other parts of South Asia.

Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia
Critical Perspectives
Edited by Assa Doron and Alex Broom

Minority Nationalisms in South Asia
Edited by Tanweer Fazal

Gujarat Beyond Gandhi
Identity, Society and Conflict
Edited by Nalin Mehta and Mona Mehta

South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Babli Sinha

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India
New Perspectives
Edited by Rosalind OHanlon and David Washbrook

Gender and Masculinities
Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka
Edited by Assa Doron and Alex Broom

Television At Large in South Asia
Edited by Aswin Punathambekar and Shanti Kumar

Mapping South Asian Masculinities
Men and Political Crises
Edited by Chandrima Chakraborty

Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
Defying the Perpetual Exception
Edited by Neilesh Bose

Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India
Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community
Edited by Rosalind OHanlon,
Christopher Minkowski and
Anand Venkatkrishnan

South Asian Folklore in Transition
Crafting New Horizons
Edited by Frank J. Korom and Leah K. Lowthorp

South Asian Folklore in Transition

Crafting New Horizons

Edited by
Frank J.KoromandLeah K.Lowthorp

First published 2019
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Contents

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The chapters in this book were originally published in South Asian History and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (October 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

Introduction: locating the study of folklore in modern South Asian studies
Frank J. Korom
South Asian History and Culture, volume 8, issue 4 (October 2017), pp. 404413

Chapter 2

How stories lodge in lives
Margaret A. Mills
South Asian History and Culture,

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