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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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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions South Asia Seminar Series
author
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Appadurai, Arjun; Korom, Frank J.; Mills, Margaret Ann.
publisher
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University of Pennsylvania Press
isbn10 | asin
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0812213378
print isbn13
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9780812213379
ebook isbn13
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9780585121628
language
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English
subject
Folklore--South Asia--History and criticism, Folk literature, Indic--History and criticism, Women--South Asia--Folklore, Sex role in literature--South Asia--History and criticism, Sex--South Asia--Folklore, Power (Social sciences)
publication date
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1991
lcc
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GR302.G46 1991eb
ddc
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398/.095
subject
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Folklore--South Asia--History and criticism, Folk literature, Indic--History and criticism, Women--South Asia--Folklore, Sex role in literature--South Asia--History and criticism, Sex--South Asia--Folklore, Power (Social sciences)
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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
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SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR SERIES
Recent volumes in this series include:
Identity and Division in Cults and Sects in South Asia. 1984
Science and Technology in South Asia. 1985
Making Things in South Asia: The Role of Artist and Craftsman. 1988
Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series
General Editor, Patrick Mullen
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Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills
University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia
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Copyright 1991 by the University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gender, genre, and power in South Asian expressive traditions / edited by Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills. p. cm. (South Asia seminar series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8122-3082-5 (cloth).ISBN 0-8122-1337-8 (pbk.) 1. FolkloreAsia, SouthHistory and criticism. 2. Folk literatureAsia, SouthHis tory and criticism. 3. WomenAsia, SouthFolklore. 4. Sex role in literatureAsia, SouthHistory and criticism. 5. SexAsia, SouthFolklore. 6. Power (Social sci ences) 1. Appadurai, Arjun, 1949- .II. Korom, Frank J. III. Mills, Margaret Ann. IV. Series. GR302.G46 1991 398'.095dc20 91-2711 CIP
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Note on Transliteration
xi
Introduction
Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom, and Margaret A. Mills
3
Part I: Gender: Voices and Lives
1. Toward a Counter-System: Women's Tales
A. K. Ramanujan
33
2. Gender and Verbal Performance Style in Afghanistan
Margaret A. Mills
56
3. The Role of Suffering in Women's Performance of Paxto
Benedicte Grima
81
4. Gender and Illusion in a Rajasthani Yogic Tradition
Ann Grodzins Gold
102
5. Kin Songs
Peter J. Claus
136
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Part II: Genres: Identification and Identity
6. Genre and Community in the Folklore System of Chhattisgarh
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
181
7. Why Does Ram Swarup Sing? Song and Speech in the North Indian Epic Dhola
Susan S. Wadley
201
8. Wandering Lost: A Landless Laborer's Sense of Place and Self
Margaret Trawick
224
9. The Cosmogonic Riddles of Lalan Fakir
Carol Salomon
267
10. Footpath Poets of Peshawar
Wilma L. Heston
305
Part III: Tradition: Persistence and Divergence
11. The Popularization and Transformation of the Light Classical Urdu Ghazal-Song
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