Contents
GLORIA GOODWIN RAHEJA;
Introduction;
The Paradoxes of Power and Community:
Women’s Oral Traditions and the Uses of Ethnography KIRIN NARAYAN;
Singing form Separation: Women’s Voices in and about Kangra Folksongs SARAH LAMB;
The Beggared Mother: Older Women’s Narratives in West Bengal JOYCE BURKHALTER FLUECKIGER;
There are Only Two Castes: Men and Women:
Negotiating Gender as a Female Healer in south Asian Islam ANN GRODZINS GOLD;
Outspoken Women: representations of Female Voices in a Rajasthani Folklore Community KATHRYAN S MARCH;
Two Houses and the Pain of Separation in Tamang Narratives from Highland Nepal GLORIA GOODWIN RAHEJA;
Negotiated Solidarities: Gendered Representations of Disruption a and Desire in North Indian Oral Traditions and Popular Culture
A K RAMANUJAN;
A Flowering Tree: A Women’s Tales;
About the Authors