The Department of Asian Studies and the Center for India and South Asia Research present a talk:
Localized Mythologies and Transnational Mediations: Women’s Oral Poetry from the Himalayan Foothills by Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is a leading folklorist of South Asia. Her research concerns women’s oral traditions in North India, narrativity and ethnography, and the South Asian diaspora. Her numerous publications include Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels (winner of the 1990 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing), Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon : Himalayan foothill folktales (1997), and a novel, Love, Stars, and All That (1994).
The talk will be held Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 4 PM in the Asia Centre, room 604 (show me a map)