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  Publications of Leela Prasad
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Books

  1.  Poetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town.  Columbia University Press, 2006.
  2.  Live Like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience.  Philadelphia: The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies., 1999.

Papers Published

  1. Leela Prasad. ""Do You Accept My Truth, My Lord?" Translation & Analysis of Kannada Folksong." Transforming Ramayanas: Modern Retellings in South India  (2007).
  2. Leela Prasad. "Anklets on the Pyal: Women Present Women's Stories from South India." Gender and Story in South India  (Fall, Fall, 2006).
  3. Leela Prasad. "Text, Tradition, and Imagination: Evoking the Normative in Everyday Hindu Life." Numen 53:1 (Spring, 2006): 1-47.
  4. Leela Prasad. "Celebrating Allegiances, Ambiguated Belonging: Regionality in Festival and Performance in Sringeri, South India."." Region and Its Mirrors in Indian Imagination.  (December, 2005).
  5. L. Prasad. ""Conversational Narrative and the Moral Self: Stories of Negotiated Proprieties from South India."." Journal of Religious Ethics 32:1 (2004): 153-174..
  6. "The Authorial Other in Folktale Collections in Colonial India: Tracing Narration and its Dis/Continuties." Cultural Dynamics 15:1 (2003): 5-40.
  7. "Bilingual Joking-Questions: Narrating Ethnicity and Politics in Indian Citylore." Folklore in Modern India  (1998): 211-225.

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 26:1 (Spring, 2006): 157-59.

Other

  1. "Hindu Goddesses" (254-259); "Character Stereotypes in Folklore" (107-109); "Folklore about the British" (77-79); "Hospitality" (287-89); "Mary Frere" (232-233); "Pandit S. M. Natesa Sastri" (436-438)." South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia.  (2002).
  2. "Gatekeeping “the Subaltern?” A Response to Frank Korom’s review of exhibit, Live Like the Banyan Tree.." Journal of American Folklore 114 (2001): 73-75.

Edited Volumes

  1.  Gender and Story in South India. Gender and Story in South India.State University of New York Press, Albany, NY., 2006.