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Publications of Leela Prasad    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town.  Columbia University Press, 2007.

Edited Books

  1. with Bottigheimer, Ruth & Handoo, Lalita. Gender and Story in South India. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY., 2006.
  2.  Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience. Philadelphia: The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies., 1999.

Papers Published

  1. "Text, Tradition, and Imagination: Evoking the Normative in Everyday Hindu Life." Numen 53:1 (Spring, 2006): 1-47.
  2. "Conversational Narrative and the Moral Self: Stories of Negotiated Proprieties from South India.." Journal of Religious Ethics 32:1 (2004): 153-174..
  3. "The Authorial Other in Folktale Collections in Colonial India: Tracing Narration and its Dis/Continuties." Cultural Dynamics 15:1 (2003): 5-40.
  4. "Bilingual Joking-Questions: Narrating Ethnicity and Politics in Indian Citylore." Folklore in Modern India  (1998): 211-225.

Articles in a Collection

  1. Leela Prasad. "Constituting Ethical Subjectivities." The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies Ed. Robert A. Orsi. Cambridge Companion to ReligionsCambridge University Press, 2011, 360-379. (The volume is out, but its copyright date is 2012.)
  2. Leela Prasad. "Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability." Ethical Life in South Asia Ed. Anand Pandian & Daud Ali. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, Fall, 2010, pp. 174-191.
  3.  "Sita's Powers: ‘Do You Accept My Truth, My Lord?’ A Women's Folksong." Rāmāyana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology. Ed. Paula Richman. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. (Translation and analysis of Kannada folksong.)
  4.  "Celebrating Allegiances, Ambiguated Belonging: Regionality in Festival and Performance in Sringeri, South India."." Region, Culture, and Politics in India Ed. Rajendra Vora & Anne Feldhaus.. Manohar Publications, New Delhi., 2006.
  5.  "Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women's Stories from South India." Gender and Story in South India. Ed. Leela Prasad, Ruth Bottigheimer, Lalita Handoo. SUNY Press, 2006, 1-33.

Book Reviews

  1. Leela Prasad. "Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East  vol. 26 no. 1 (Spring, 2006): 157-59.

Cassettes and Videos

  1. Leela Prasad & Baba Prasad. Moved by Gandhi [A documentary film]. in progress.

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