Abstracts of the 1998 AAS Annual Meeting
March 26-29, 1998, Washington, DC
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SOUTH ASIA
- Millenarianism in the Hindu Kush, Paula R. Newberg
- Reframing the Kashmir Question: A Non-Nationalist
Conception of the Meaning of Self-Determination, Sumantra
Bose
- Obstacles to Constructing Civil Society in Kashmir, Patricia
Ann Gossman
- The Press in Kashmir: Between the Barrels of Two Guns, Vikram
Parekh
- Fathers and Sons: Sir Syed and Syed Mahmood, David
Lelyveld
- Apologetic Modernity, Faisal Devji
- Syed Ahmad Khan and the Refinement of Morals, Jamal
Malik
- Ambivalence about Globalization: Two Divergent Moments in
the Academy, Itty Abraham
- Neoliberalism, Free Trade, and the Globalization of
Production: Indian Garment Workers in a Transitional
Frame, Jayati Lal
- Globalization and State Power in South Asia, Mustapha
K. Pasha
- Infigurations and Configurations: Anandamoyi in
Tagore’s Gora, Nikky Singh
- Rasadhvani Aesthetic in Tagore’s Gora, Lalita
Pandit
- Tagore and the Brahma Samaj: Brahmoism vs. Hindu
Orthodoxy in Gora, Yeager Hudson
- Decentering Masculinities in Tamil and Hindi
"Westerns", Lalitha Gopalan
- Dying to be a Doctor: Remembering Anandibai and Gopalrao
in India and America, Sandhya Shetty
- Reading and Devouring: The Gastropoetics of Madhur
Jaffrey, Parama Roy
- Indian Democracy and the Challenge of Hindu Nationalism, Amrita
Basu
- Depleting and Replenishing Political Capital:
India’s Constitution after 50 Years, Lloyd I.
Rudolph
- Social Movements in India: Enhancing or Undermining
Democracy?, Mary Katzenstein
- Insults and Honors: Personal Identity and Its
Transformation in 18th–19th Century Madras, Mattison
Mines
- Shifting Genres: Autobiography and Biography of
18th–19th Century Indian Immigrants to Britain, Michael
H. Fisher
- The Kumari-Taleju Equation: Refocusing the Hindu-Buddhist
Relationship in the Kathmandu Valley, Barbara Kelly
- Symbolic Identities of Newar Buddhism: Svayambhu
Mahacaitya and the Dharmadhatu Mandala, Dina Bangdel
- How do "Wailing-Songs" Serve for
Entertainment?: Problems in Defining the Jarigan
Repertory of Bengal, Mary Frances Dunham
- Serpent Symbolism in the Mythologies of Andhra Folk
Goddesses, Sree Padma
- One Past or Many?: On the Construction of Histories and
Itihasas, Ishita Banerjee Dube
- A Counter-aesthetics of Modernity: Some Dangi Histories, Ajay
Skaria
- Contending Histories, Contentious Pasts: Tales of
Identity from Central India, Saurabh Dube
- Narrating Globalization in India and its Discontents, S.
Shankar
- Narrating Globalization in India and its Discontents, Annanya
Bhattacharjee
- Placing Migrant South Asian Domestic Workers in a Global
Frame, Yumna Siddiqi
- Global Citizenship?: Lessons from South Asia, Kunal M.
Parker
- Traveling Barbie: South Asian Transnationalities and the
Global Consumer, Inderpal Grewal
- Managing Globalization: Gender, Sexuality and the Urban
PublicSphere in India, Leela Fernandes
- Miss World Showcases India: The Anxiety of Nationalism
and Sexuality in Contemporary India, Rupal Oza
- The Meaning of Ambedkar, Eleanor Zelliot
- Dalit Art, Gary Tartakov
- A Crab in the Basket: The Reluctant Political Candidacy
of a Camar Woman in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Mathew N.
Schmalz
- Complexities in the Emergence of the Modern Maharashtrian
Woman: The Fiction of a Dalit Writer, Veena Deo
- Poems of War in Love: On Longing and Lamentation in Tamil
Cankam Literature, Martha Ann Selby
- Feasts of Flesh: Laughter and War in Medieval Courtly
Poetry, Daud Ali
- The Spectacle of War: Eighteenth-Century Battle Murals
from South India , Jennifer Howes
- Conquest and Romance: The Children of ‘Alauddin
Khalji, Aditya Behl
- Sujata’s Army: Dalit Buddhist Women and Self
Emancipation, Owen M. Lynch
- Black Self-Image; Bhangi Self-Image, Charles Wendell
Barlow
- Ideologies and Strategies: Dalit and Black Movements, K.
P. Singh
- A New Approach: Dalits Living in Dharavi, Marie-Caroline
Saglio
- The Ritual Composition of Sankhu, an Ancient Newar Town
in Nepal, Bal Gopal Shrestha
- Vajrayogini and the Kingdom of Kathmandu: Constructing
Polity in Seventeenth-Century Nepal, Bronwen Bledsoe
- Neoliberalism and the Cultural Politics of Newar Guthis,
Katharine N. Rankin
- What is a Theravada Buddhist in Nepal?: Ethics and
Identity in Modern Newar Buddhism, Lauren Leve
- The Scheduled Tribes, Affirmative Action and Politics:
India’s Jharkhand, Stuart Corbridge
- Rising Scheduled Castes: Explaining the Success of
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Kanchan Chandra
- The Rise of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in North Indian
Politics, Christophe Jaffrelot
- Teaching the Country to Speak: Colonial Ethnography,
Custom, and the Illusion of Compliance in the Literature
of the Survey of India, Gloria Goodwin Raheja
- Hullabaloo About Telugu, Thomas Trautmann
- Military Ethnography in British India, Mary Des Chene
- Shurreef, Herklots, Crooke, and Qanoon-e-Islam:
Constructing an Ethnography of the Indian Moosulmans, Sylvia
Jane Vatuk
- Gender and Education in Pakistan: An International Effort
to Improve Education for Girls, Christina Rawley
- Gender and Schooling: Examining Non-formal Education in
Nepal, Mary Ann Maslak
- Improving Education for Girls in Baluchistan: What’s
Next?, John D. Hatch
- "National Socialism" in Sri Lanka, Kanishka
Goonewardena
- Redefining Interests: Politics of Economic Reform in
India, Shallini Ann Chopra
- Dr. Hansen and the Crouching Mango: The Anthropology of
STD and HIV/AIDS in Cambodia, Maurice Eisenbruch
- Adding ‘98 to ‘93 and Still Coming Up with
Zero: The International Community, Peace-Building, and
Democratization in Cambodia, Pierre P. Lizée
- Disciplining the Police: Bureaucratic Rationality in Late
19th-Century Colonial North India, Clea T. Finkle
- Tricks of the Trade: The Invisible Hand and Other
Regulations of Indigenous Commercial Culture in India,
1880–1900, Ritu Birla
- The Politics of Timber Beyond Forest Boundaries: Timber
Traders in Punjab, 1845–1925, Ruhi Grover
- Making Hindu Marriage Public: Community Marriages and the
Problem of Dowry in Modern Bengal, Anne Hardgrove
- Beware the Bed of Fire: Gender, Democracy and the
Jamaat-e Islami in Bangladesh, Elora Shehabuddin
- Globalization, Islamization, and the Rise of Fatwas in
Bangladesh, Dina Siddiqi
- Domestic and External Dimensions of the Kashmir Dispute, Sumit
Ganguly
- Political Violence in the Punjab: The External Factor, Paul
Wallace
- India and the Sri Lankan Civil War: The View from Lanka
and Eelam, Robert C. Oberst
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