All Stories

  1. "Illness Is Nothing But Injustice": The Revolutionary Element in Bengali Folk Healing
  2. The Silent Killer: The Ass as Personification of Illness in North Indian Folklore
  3. The Animal Question in South Asia: a Post-Modern Pañcatantra
  4. Beyond Order and Madness. Death and the Hereafter in the Ethnographies of Ernesto De Martino
  5. The Animal Question in South Asian Religions: a Post-Modern Pañcatantra
  6. Mystic Rites For Permanent Class Conflict: The Bauls Of Bengal, Revolutionary Ideology And Post-Capitalism
  7. ‘Love Me Two Times.’ From Smallpox to AIDS: Contagion and Possession in the Cult of Śītalā
  8. Playing with corpses and worshipping skulls: bodily modifications and gender transformations in rural West Bengal
  9. Surrendering to the Earth: Male Devotional Practices in the Bengali Dharma Cult