Publications of John Freeman

Journal Articles

  1. Freeman, J, Cultural Ideologies of Language in Pre-Colonial India: A Symposium, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 1 (1998), Cambridge University Press, ISSN 1752-0401
  2. Freeman, R, Cultural Ideologies of Language in Precolonial India: A Symposium, The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 1 (February, 1998), pp. 2-5, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0021-9118
  3. Freeman, J, Formalized Possession among the Tantris and Teyyams of Malabar, South Asia Research, vol. 18 no. 1 (1998), SAGE Publications, ISSN 1741-3141
  4. Freeman, J, Formalized Possession: The Tantric-Folk Continuum in the Hindu Worship of Northern Kerala, Diskus: The On-Disk Journal of International Religious Studies, vol. 2 no. 2 (1994)
  5. Freeman, J, Gods, Groves, and and Culture of Nature in Northern Kerala, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 33 no. 2 (1999), Cambridge University Press, ISSN 1469-8099
  6. Freeman, R, Review of Kerala Brahmins in Transition: A Study of a Nampūtiri Family by Marjatta Parpola, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 124 no. 2 (April, 2004), pp. 385-387, JSTOR, ISSN 0003-0279
  7. Freeman, R, Rubies and Coral: The Lapidary Crafting of Language in Kerala, The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 57 no. 1 (February, 1998), pp. 38-65, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0021-9118
  8. Freeman, R, Taste, Material Religion, vol. 7 no. 1 (March, 2011), Berg Publishers, Oxford (Special Issue: Key Terms in Material Religion.)

Articles in a Collection

  1. Freeman, J, Arresting Possession: Spirit Mediums in the Media, in South Asian Festivals on the Move, edited by Husken, U; Michaels, A (2013), Wiesbaden
  2. Freeman, R, Caught in Translation: Ideologies of Literary Language in Kerala’s Maṇipravāḷam, in Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India, edited by Cox, W; Vergiani, V (2013), École Française d’Etrême Orient
  3. Freeman, J, Dynamics of the Person in the Worship and Sorcery of Malabar, in Possession in South Asia: Speech, Body, Territory, edited by Tarabout, G; Assayag, J (1999), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
  4. Freeman, J, Folk Models of the Forest Environment in Highland Malabar, in The social construction of Indian forests, edited by Studies, UOECFSA (1998), pp. 187 pages, Manohar Publishers
  5. Freeman, J, Genre and Society: The Literary Culture of Pre-Modern Kerala, in Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (2003), University of California Press
  6. Freeman, J, Hindu Literature in Malayalam, in A Companion to Hinduism (2003), Basil Blackwood
  7. Freeman, J, Kerala; Onam; Tottam, in South Asian Folklore: an Encyclopedia, edited by Mills, M (November, 2004), Garland Science, ISBN 9780815314998
  8. Freeman, J, Les Bois Sacrés dans les Monts du Kérala Septentrional : Une Analyse Culturelle, in L’Homme et la Forêt en Inde du Sud. Modes de Gestion et Symbolisme de la Forêt dans les Ghâts Occidentaux, edited by Pouchepadass, J; Puyravaud, J (2002), Pondichery and Paris
  9. Freeman, J, Literature and the Development of Regional Consciousness in Medieval Kerala, edited by Vora, R; Feldhaus, A (2006), Manohar
  10. Freeman, J, Mappila Ramayana of Hassankutty ("The Mad"), edited by Richman, P (2008), University of Indiana Press
  11. Freeman, R, Pedagogy and Practice: The Meta-pragmatics of Tantric Rites in Kerala., in Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual. Vol. 1, edited by Michaels, A; Mishra, A (Fall, 2010), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
  12. Freeman, J, Shifting Forms of the Wandering Yogi, in Masked Ritual and Performance in South India, edited by Shulman, D; Thiagarajan, D (2006), University of Michigan Press
  13. Freeman, J, Texts, Temples, and the Teaching of Tantra in Kerala, in The Resources of History: Tradition, Narration, and Nation in South Asia (1999), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
  14. Freeman, R, The Performative Context of Nala in Late Medieval Kerala, in Damayanti and Nala: The Many Lives of a Story., edited by Wadley, S (Fall, 2010), pp. 187-241, New Delhi: Chronicle Books
  15. Freeman, J, The Teyyam Tradition of Kerala, in A Companion to Hinduism, edited by Flood, G (2003), Basil Blackwood
  16. Freeman, J, Thereupon Hangs a Tail: The Deification of Vali in the Teyyam Worship of Malabar, in Questioning Ramayanas, edited by Richman, P (January, 2001), pp. 432 pages, Univ of California Press, ISBN 9780520220744
  17. Freeman, R, Untouchable Bodies of Knowledge in the Spirit Possession of Malabar, in Images of the Body in India., edited by Michaels, A; Wulf, C (Fall, 2010), pp. 125-155, New Delhi & London: Routledge