Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
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There are only two castes : men and women : negotiating gender as a female healer in South Asian Islam Open
In this essay, I examine how Amma perceives and negotiates this seemingly unorthodox position for "woman" in a pluralistic Muslim/Hindu society in which the public domain continues to be dominated by the male voice. Does she draw gender bo…
3. Brave Daughters, Bound Kings: A Female Tradition of Reversal Ḍālkhāī Open
Ki i}iilkhiil re! Ki i}iilkhiil re!In phii gun, color is scarce.Radha and Madhav will throw color [the hall dyes] .Mixing camphor in the pool of color, Their companions will throw color.Jadhu and Gosai, leave the path.Ki Qii lkhiil re! Ki …
I. Introduction: Region, Repertoire, and Genre Open
Over the initial weeks of looking for a village in which to live and the months that followed during which I visited many other villages, my ques tioning regarding performance repertoires became more refined.I began to frame the questions …
Kathānī Kūhā: Of Friendship, Love, and Memory Open
I'm taking contracts, brother.I'm taking contracts:' Ka thiinl Kiihii 2 5 7 P.Yes. -LAUGH-"What kinds of work can you do?You said you are from the east, from the Oriya region.What kinds of skills have you learned?" "Count them.I make gold …
7. Paṇḍvānī Heroines, Chhattisgarhi Daughters Paṇḍvānī Open
The Sanskrit, pan-Indian epics of the Ramayana and Mahabharata are often paired in Western scholarship of South Asian texts, even as that pairing reveals significant differences between the two (see, for example, Shulman 1991 and Smith 198…
2. Soaking the Goddess, Celebrating Friendship Bhojalī Open
CHAPTER 2Group 2: Instruments are sounding, dl;iimak dl;iimak.From where are the instruments sounding?From where are these instruments?Group 1: The telin and kaliirin are serving the bhojati diil.From there the instruments are sounding.Fro…
Note on Transliteration Open
Italicized Hindi and Chhattisgarhi words have been transliterated using a conventional system of transliteration.Proper nouns, including names and place names, appear without diacritics and thus in the form that most closely approximates t…
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India Open
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition …