GENDER GENRE POWER [Paperback]

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.

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.