Abstracts of the 1999 AAS Annual
Meeting
March 11-14, 1999, Boston, MA
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SOUTH ASIA
- Sovereignty, Labour, and Gender in
Pre-Colonial South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi
- Colonial Discourse, Labour, and Democracy in
Twentieth-Century India, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar
- Gender and Domesticity in India:
Liberalization in Historical Perspective, Samita Sen
- Translating Potency: The "Cult of the
Book" and the Agency of Language, Natalie Gummer
- Drinking the Dharma, Susanne Mrozik
- Inhabiting the Future, Karen Derris
- What’s in a Name? Calling and
Recalling, Luis O. Gomez
- Representing "His" Women: Mirza
Abu Talib Khan’s 1801 "Vindication of the Liberties of the Asiatic Women", Michael
H. Fisher
- Inscription and Consumption: The Burdwan
Tour of Europe, 1926, Paul Greenough
- Revealing Truths: Inscriptions of an
Indigenous Christianity in Colonial Central India, Saurabh Dube
- The Yoginis of Newar Buddhism: An
Ontological Interpretation, Dina Bangdel
- Conceptual Relationships between Kumari
Baha, Mandalic Representations, and the Kathmandu Valley, Janice Glowski
- New Episodes in the Narrative of the Life of
Sakyamuni Buddha: Findings in a Book of Drawings from the Collection of the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Chaya Chandrasekhar
- A Case Study in Religious Continuity: The
Bengal Connection: Stone Carved Evidence of Newar Buddhist Methodologies in the Sculpture
of Northern and Eastern Bengal, John C. Huntington
- A Brother and His Sister, Jacqueline
Conrath
- "I’ll Not Farm While I’m
Alive": Resistance among Hunter-Gatherers of South Asia, Jana Fortier
- Exploring the Dialectics of Gender and Tribe
in South Asia, Aarti Saihjee
- The Positive Discrimination Policy and the
Indian Medical Profession: Questions of Equality, Merit, and Social Justice, K. Lavanya
- Conceptions of Childbirth: Cultural Meanings
and Biological Processes in Nepal, Laura M. Ahearn
- Asian Migration and the World Economic
System, Sucheta Mazumdar
- Labor Migrants from Malaysia in the Asia
Pacific: An Episode of Transnational Migration in an Age of Disposability, Donald
Nonini
- Asians Becoming Americans: Chinese, Indian,
and Korean Immigrants in Queens, New York, Madhulika Khandelwal
- India’s New Strategic Vision, George
Perkovich
- More Dangerous Decades: The Home Front
Revisited, William Vanderbok
- Scenarios for India, Pakistan, Kashmir and
Their Really Big Bombs, Louis D. Hayes
- Hindi, Chini, Bye-Bye: Likely Responses to
the New Strategic Vision, Ronald N. Montaperto
- Noble Rajputs and Plundering Marathas:
History, Conquest, and Rule in British India, Lynn Zastoupil
- Burton in India: The Making of an
Orientalist, Dane Kennedy
- Knowing the Country: James Ranald Martin and
Medical Topography in British India, Mark Harrison
- Soldiers, Historians, and Orientalists:
Decolonizing the Military History of Colonial India, Douglas Peers
- Grinding Millet but Singing of Sita: Power
and Domination in Hindi Women’s Songs, Usha Nillson
- Another Ravana, Another Rama, Philip
Lutgendorf
- Aping the Social Order: Vali in the Teyyam
Worship of Kerala, Rich Freeman
- Subverting the Moral Universe:
"Narratives of Transgression" and Middle-Class Women’s Identity, Swapna
Banerjee
- "I Looked as Mean as Possible":
Photography as a Site of Women’s Resistance, Geraldine Forbes
- Nationalizing Respectability: Reflections on
the Women’s Movement in Bangladesh, Dina Siddiqi
- Alienist Assumptions and Alien Territories:
The Arrival of the Criminal Insane, Bombay Presidency, 1849–1921, Shruti Kapila
- Caste, Religion, and Prisons in North India:
The Lotah Emeute of 1855, Anand A. Yang
- The Match-Maker State: Convict Marriages and
the Colonial Indian Prison, Satadru Sen
- Religious Authority and Political Power in
Medieval Western India, Sumit Guha
- Mapping the Brahmanical Mandate: The
Shifting Worlds of Brahman Activity and Authority in Medieval South India, Leslie C.
Orr
- Straddling Two Worlds: The Buddhist Brahmans
of Thailand, Priyawat Kuan Poonpol
- Mobile Sufis and the Immobile Indo-Muslim
State, Richard M. Eaton
- Challenging Current Virashaiva
Historiography: C. P. Brown’s Study of the Role of Folklore and Aradhya Brahmins in
the Evolution of Elite Virashaivism in Telugu, Daniel D’Attilio
- Merging the Literati with the Subaltern: C.
P. Brown and the Redefinition of Telugu Culture, Peter L. Schmitthenner
- The Holistic Telugu Vision of Charles Philip
Brown, Gene H. Roghair
- The Ritual of Feeding the Hungry Ghosts:
Doctrinal and Visual Aspects, Trian Nguyen
- Soteriological Androgyny: The Gupta-Period
Sarnath Buddha Image and Buddhist Doctrine, Robert L. Brown
- Houses and Palaces: Changing Images in
Indian Buddhist Art and Literature, Phyllis Granoff
- Monks, Portraits and Jain Beliefs about the
Dead, Jack C. Laughlin
- Mullah on the Mainframe: Modernity and
Islamization among the Daudi Bohras, Jonah Blank
- The Genesis of Communalism in Tamil Nadu:
The Minakshipuram Mass Conversions, Frank S. Fanselow
- Caste, Class, and Islam: Debating the
Boundaries of "Backwardness" in India, Laura D. Jenkins
- Konkani Muslims on the Urduization Path, Omar
Khalidi
- Secularism Out of Its Place, Paul R.
Brass
- Subordinate Caste Politics and State
Performance, Kanchan Chandra
- The State, Democracy, and the Challenge of
Identity in India, Subrata Kumar Mitra
- Solidarity or Sedition? African Americans,
Pro-Japanese Sentiments, and World War II, Reginald Kearney
- Japan and the Nation of Islam, Ernest
Allen
- African Americans and the Indian
Independence Struggle, Michael West
- Contemporary Dalit Interest in American
Blacks, Gary Tartakov
- Constant Craving: Listening to the Voice of
the Garbha in the Caraka- and Susruta-Samhitas, Martha Ann Selby
- Surya Namaskar: Solar Energy,
Democracy at High Noon, and the Setting Imperial Sun in India, Joseph S. Alter
- Invoking Vali: Painful Technologies
of Modern Birth in South India, Cecilia Van Hollen
- The Gender of Kidneys and the Space of the
Ethical: The Production of Controversy in Indian Organ Transplantation, Lawrence Cohen
- British India Through the Eyes of a German
Orientalist: Richard Garbe’s Indian Journey, 1885–86, Kaushik Bagchi
- "From a Humanitarian Point of View I
Could Become Barbarian." Jacob Haafner (1754–1809): An Anti-Colonialist with a
Multi-Cultural Perspective, Paul Van der Velde
- Medicine in Miracles: Points of Anxiety in
an Expanding Healthcare Market, India from c. 1800 to 1950, Claudia Liebeskind
- The Applicability of Western Social Movement
Theories in a Social Movement of East Bengal, Afroza Anwary
- Indian Federalism: Enter the Sub-state, David
Stuligross
- The A,B,C of Modernity, Nita Kumar
- Development in the Shadow of the Commodity:
Education, Consumption, and Citizenship in Kerala, South India, Ritty A. Lukose
- Becoming Middle Class and "Modern"
in an English High School: Identity Formation among British Sikh Teenagers, Kathleen
Hall
- New Light in the House: Why Unschooled
Parents Might Educate Daughters, Ann Grodzins Gold
- Rescuing Remnants of the Kashmiri Vedic
Tradition, Susan J. Rosenfield
- Tragic Sense in the Poetry of Lallesvari and
Sankaracarya, Lalita Pandit
- The Poet-Saints of Kashmir and the Kashmiri
Poet Today, Agha Shahid Ali
- Aadam Exiled from the Gardens of Kashmir: Midnight’s
Children and the Death of Kashmiri Tradition, Patrick C. Hogan
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