Scholarly Essays, Chapters, Translations
2008
forthcoming Singing and Retelling the Past. In Living with Stories. William Schneider, ed. Pp. 97-129. Utah: Utah State University Press.
forthcoming “Or in Other Words:” Traversing Registers of Language and Levels of Generality in Scholarly Writing. for special issue, Grand Theory. Journal of Folklore Research.
forthcoming Showers of Flowers: A.K. Ramanujan and an Indian Folktale. Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche.
2007
forthcoming Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction. In Self and subject in motion: South Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans. Kathryn Robinson, ed. Pp. 60-76. Lond on: Palgrave.
Tools to Shape Texts: What Creative Nonfiction Can Offer Ethnography. Anthropology and Humanism 32:130-144.
Legends and Family Folklore. Indian Folklife . Special Issue, The Legend: Conceptual issues and Pragmatics of Telling . Kishore Bhattarcharjee, ed. 25.
2006
Shared Stories. In Bridges to Humanity: Narratives on Fieldwork and Friendship, 2d revised edition. Bruce T. Grindal and Frank A. Salamone, eds. Pp. 113-128. Long Grove, Il: Waveland.
2004
"Honor is Honor After All:" Silence and Speech in the Life Stories of Women in Kangra, North-West India. In Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography and Life History. David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn eds. Pp. 227-251. New Delhi: Permanent Black. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
2003
Haunting Stories: Narrative Transmissions of South Asian Identities in Diaspora. In South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Traditions, Knut Jacobsen and Pratap Kumar, eds. pp. 415-434. Leiden: Brill.
Colonialism and Folklore, Folklore of Himachal Pradesh, Sadhu, Tulsi, Wedding Songs in South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Margaret A. Mills, Peter J. Claus, and Sarah Diamond, eds., pp. 115-116, 284, 531, 619, 634-635. New York: Routledge.
Bharatbarsat lokasmskriti bisayak chinta-carcha (History of Indian Folklore Scholarship, trans. by B.N. Datta) In VISWAKOSH: Encyclopedia of Assamese Folkloer. VOL V, K. Bhattacharya and Birendranath Datta, eds,. pp. 245-49. Jorhat : Asom Sahitya Sabha.
2002
How Native is a Native Anthropologist? In Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Reina Lewis and Sara Mills, eds. pp. 263-284. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
How Native is a Native Anthropologist In American Anthropology: Papers from the American Anthropologist 1971-1995 . Regna Darnell, ed. Pp. 765-788. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Singing from Separation: Women's Voices in and About Kangra Folksongs. in Language, Gender and Subaltern Subjectivity. Gloria Raheja, ed. Pp. 1-31. New Delhi: Kali for Women.
The God of Doorways. In Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer’s Tent. Ron Emoff and David Henderson, eds., pp. 61-79. New York: Routledge.
White-Bearers: Views of the Dhauladhar. In Into the High Ranges: The Penguin Book of Mountain Writings , Ravina Aggarwal, ed, pp. 149-161. New Delhi: Penguin.
Introduction: Situating Old Deccan Days. In Old Deccan Days by Mary Frere, K. Narayan, ed., pp. vii-xxxii. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio.
Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans. In Everyday Life in South Asia, Sarah Lamb and Diane Mines, eds, pp. 425-439. Urbana: Illinois University Press.
2001
(with Kenneth M. George) Interviewing for Folk and Personal Narrative. In Handbook of Interview Research: Methods and Context, Jay Gubrium and James Holstein, eds., pp. 815-831. New York: Sage.
1999
Anthropologist and Novelist. In Yellow Light: The Flowering of the Asian American Arts , Amy Ling, ed. pp. 149-153. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Ethnography and Fiction: Mapping a Border. Anthropology and Humanism 24:1-14.
1998
Singing from Separation: Women's Voices in and About Kangra Folksongs. Oral Tradition 8:1-31.
How Native is a “Native” Anthropologist? In Anthropological Journeys: Essays on Fieldwork, Meenakshi Thapan, ed, pp. 162-87. New Delhi: Orient Longmans.
1997
The Sprouting and Uprooting of Saili: The Story of Sacred Tulsi in Kangra. Manushi: A Journal of Women and Society 102:30-38.
1996
How Native is a "Native" Anthropologist? In Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life , Louise Lamphere, Helene Ragone, and Patricia Zavella, eds., pp. 23-41. New York: Routledge.
Kulh : The Waterway. In The Walled-Up Bride: A Folklore Casebook, Alan Dundes, ed. pp. 109-120. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Songs Lodged in the Heart: Public Culture and the Displacement of Regional Women's Culture. In Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity , Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg, eds., pp. 181-213.Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
First Sweet, then Sour: Women's Ritual Storytelling in the Himalayan Foothills. Women and Language XIV:9-13.
1995
Taking Oral Literary Criticism Seriously: Reflections on a Kangra Woman's Song. In Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes . R. Bendix and R. Zumwalt, eds., pp. 237-64. New York and London: Garland.
The Practice of Oral Literary Criticism: Women's Songs in Kangra, India. Journal of American Folklore 108:243-64.
Shared Stories. In Bridges to Humanity, B. Grindal and F. Salomone, eds., pp. 85-98. Prospect Heights: Waveland.
Participant Observation In Women Writing Culture. Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon, eds. Pp. 33-48. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Come Out and Serve. Anthropology and Humanism 20 (1): 52-59.
The Prince with Six Fingers. In Religions of India in Practice, Donald Lopez, ed. pp. 473-486. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
How a Girl Became a Sacred Plant. In Religions of India in Practice, Donald Lopez, ed. Pp. 487-94. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1994
Women's Songs, Women's Lives: A View from Kangra.Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society 81:2-10.
1993
How Native is a "Native" Anthropologist? American Anthropologist 95 (3): 19-32.
Refractions of the Field at Home: American Representations of Hindu Holy Men in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cultural Anthropology 8(3):65-98.
Banana Republics and V.I. Degrees: Rethinking Indian Folklore in a Postcolonial World. Asian Folklore Studies 52:177-204.
On Nosecutters, Gurus and Storytellers. In Creativity/Anthropology, S. Lavie, K. Narayan, and R. Rosaldo, eds., pp. 30-53. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Introduction: Creativity in Anthropology (with S. Lavie and R. Rosaldo). In Creativity/Anthropology, eds. S. Lavie, K. Narayan, and R. Rosaldo, pp. 1-8. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
1991
Street Children Play Themselves. The Thatched Patio 4:1-11.
"According to their Feelings": Teaching and Healing with Stories. In The Lives Stories Tell: Narrative and Dialogue in Education, Carol Witherell and Nel Noddings, eds., pp. 113-135. New York: Teachers College Press.
1986
Birds on a Branch: Girlfriends and Wedding Songs in Kangra, Ethos 14:47-75.
Reviews and Notes
2007
Appreciating Women’s Folksongs. Sandesh 5 (3): 4-5.
Review of Paul Stoller, Gallery Bundu. American Ethnologist.
2006
Review of Lindsay Harlan, The Goddesses’ Henchmen. Journal of Religion 86 (2).
Review of Carolyn Ellis, The Ethnographic I . American Anthropologist 108 (2).
2005
Thinking Culturally: An Insider’s Perspective. Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore 31:25-26.
2004
Review of Burt Feintuch, ed. Eight Words in the Study of Expressive Culture. American Anthropologist.
2003
Review of Stuart Blackburn Moral Fictions. Journal of Asian Studies 62 (1):304-6.
1997
Review of A.K. Ramanujan, The Flowering Tree.Journal of Asian Studies 57:1211-1212.
1996
Review of Peter Manuel Cassette Culture.Yearbook of Traditional Music 145-146.
1995
Vanishing Ethnographers: Photowallahs. American Anthropologist 96:949-53.
Overlapping Endeavors: Anthropology and Literature. Review of A. Gottlieb and P. Graham, Parallel Worlds. Anthropology and Humanism 20:76-77.
Comment for Virginia Dominguez 'A Taste for "The Other."'Current Anthropology 35 (4):339.
1994
Review of M. Carrithers and C. Humphrey, eds. The Assembly of Listeners. American Ethnologist 21:983-94.
Review of A. Appadurai, F. Korom and M. Mills. eds. Gender, Genre and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4:109-110.
1993
Obituary: A.K. Ramanujan. Manushi 78:32-33.
Review of Lindsey Harlan, Religion and Rajput Women. Council of Women in Asian Studies Newsletter 11:13-14.
Review of Lee Siegel Net of Magic. Numen 40:211-212.
1992
News from the Field. Anthropology Newsletter, U.W. Madison 9:1-2.
1991
''Women are Always Singing' Samvadi: Archives of the Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (Delhi) 4: 2-3.
Review of Owen Lynch, ed, Divine Passions. Pacific Affairs 64: 420-21.
1990
Review of Dan Rose Black American Street Life, South Philadelphia, 1969-1971. Man (n.s.) 25 (1990):368.
Storytelling for Scholars. Wisconsin South Asian Area Center News Report 16 (1990):3-4.
1985
Cultural Relativity. Interdisciplinary Folklore Alliance 4 (1): 1-3.
1983
Fieldwork Report. Interdisciplinary Folklore Alliance 2(2): 4-5.
Fiction, Ethnographic Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
2003
Don’t Be Simple, Be Complex. Cross Cultural Poetics XCP 12:63-66.
2002
The God of Doorways. In Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer’s Tent. Ron Emoff and David Henderson, eds., pp. 61-79. New York: Routledge.
2000
Stella in Bombay. Archipelago 3:1. http://www.archipelago.org.
1999
Firoze Ganjifrockwala. Selection from Love, Stars and All That. In Yellow Light: The Flowering of the Asian American Arts, Amy Ling, ed, pp. 153-155. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1997
Lamps. In 100 Words: Special Issue on Story, p. 87.
With Her Feet Pointing Backward. In Vox: New Indian Fictions, ed. Jeet Thayil. Pp. 179-98. New Delhi: Sterling Publications.
1996
Cement. Verve 1 (1):122-127, 250-252.
1995
Participant Observation In Women Writing Culture. Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon, eds. Pp. 33-48. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Come Out and Serve. Anthropology and Humanism 20 (honorable mention for Society for Humanistic Anthropology Ethnographic Fiction competition).
1994
Love, Stars and All That: Selections. In Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers, ed. Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Pp. 155-166. Boulder: Westview.
1990
Linking Continents. The Thatched Patio 3:1-21.