Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions

by Arjun Appadurai (Editor), Frank J. Korom (Editor), Margaret Ann Mills (Editor)

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.

Genres: Asia

464 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization