Indian Folklore Research Journal, Vol. 3. Number. 6
Contents: Editor\'s note. Articles: 1. Fieldwork report: constructing community gender and kinship through epic singing/Kishore Bhattacharjee. 2. Fieldwork report: The Dangi Ramakatha: an Epic acculturated?/Aruna Ravikant Joshi. 3. Fieldwork report: discourse of the blurred genre: case of Draupadi Kuravanchi Koothu/M.D. Muthukumaraswamy. 4. Performance of caste myth: towards negotiating identities/Y.A. Sudhakar Reddy. 5. The oral and the written in a period of globalisation/Parag Moni Sarma. 6. Understanding the socio-cultural experiences of Pahari Folk: The Jagar Gathas of Kumaon and Garhwal/Mily Roy Anand. Book Reviews: 1. Affective communities: anticolonial thought and the politics of friendship by Leela Gandhi/Susan Oommen. 2. Histories for the Subordinated by David Hardiman/Parag Moni Sarma.
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