FLUECKIGER, Joyce Burkhalter. Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India

[From the cover] "Flueckiger here analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special empahasis on women’s rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organisation of indigenous genres and the reception of the folklore performance"