Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 705128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce Burkhalter |
| FAMILY NAME | Flueckiger |
| SIGNATURE | FLUECKIGER J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterword: Multiplicities and Intersections of Homes and Fields
Multiple and context-specific terms for “home” in Indian languages can help us as ethnographers imagine and recognize home(s) and field(s) as non-binary, multiple, fluid, intersecting categories. In North India, these terms may include: mul nivas, gaon, ghar, maika (pihar), sasural. The terms identify home by ancestry, residence, performance and ritual, affect, landscapes, and familial and other relationships. Paying attention to the everyday use…
Standing in cement: Possibilities created by Ravan on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
Framed by recent interest in the agency of materiality, this essay analyses, through a performative-ethnographic lens, possibilities created and questions raised by the cement images of Ravan, the antagonist of the Ramayana epic tradition, found throughout the central plains of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. While in Ramayan verbal narratives, Ravan dies, here in Chhattisgarh, materially he stands and is much more visible than the hero…
When the Goddess Speaks Her Mind: Possession, Presence, and Narrative Theology in the Gaṅgamma Tradition of Tirupati, South India
Narrative Voices and Repertoire at a Healing Crossroads in South India
This article examines the strategic performance of narratives in the healing room of a Muslim female healer in south India. Narrative performances by the healer Amma, her husband (and Sufi pir), Abba, and Amma's patients both establish and distinguish the authorities of Amma and Abba and order and heal the lives of those who come to this healing crossroads. The strategic choices of narrative performance became poignantly clear after Abba's death,…
Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India
Contextualized identities, multiple voices, and agency in South Asia
Kumar, Nita, ed. Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. [no front‐matter] 239 pp. including index. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Mines, Mattison. Public Faces, Private Voices: Community and Individuality in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. x + 232 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Raheja, Gloria Goodwin and Ann Grodzins Gold. …
Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Patricia Jeffrey , Amrita Basu
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 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 emphasis on women’s rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore pe…
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women
The Life of a Text: Performing the "Rāmacaritmānas" of Tulsidas
Oral Epics in India
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Oral Epics in India
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
"He Should Have Worn a Sari": A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic
Land of Wealth, Land of Famine: The Sua Nac (Parrot Dance) of Central India
Indigenous genre classifications are usually based upon a static view ofgenres and their systems, while an ethnographic approach to the study ofgenre reveals their flexibility. This article examines a central Indian tradition, the sua nac, orparrot dance, from such a perspective. It reveals two performance contexts for the tradition, which emphasize different aspects ofthegenre, but which also continue to influence each other
Bhojalī: Song, Goddess, Friend. A Chhattisgarhi Women's Oral Tradition
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 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 emphasis on women’s rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore pe…
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
Oral Epics in India
When the Goddess Speaks Her Mind: Possession, Presence, and Narrative Theology in the Gaṅgamma Tradition of Tirupati, South India
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Standing in cement: Possibilities created by Ravan on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
Framed by recent interest in the agency of materiality, this essay analyses, through a performative-ethnographic lens, possibilities created and questions raised by the cement images of Ravan, the antagonist of the Ramayana epic tradition, found throughout the central plains of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. While in Ramayan verbal narratives, Ravan dies, here in Chhattisgarh, materially he stands and is much more visible than the hero…
Narrative Voices and Repertoire at a Healing Crossroads in South India
This article examines the strategic performance of narratives in the healing room of a Muslim female healer in south India. Narrative performances by the healer Amma, her husband (and Sufi pir), Abba, and Amma's patients both establish and distinguish the authorities of Amma and Abba and order and heal the lives of those who come to this healing crossroads. The strategic choices of narrative performance became poignantly clear after Abba's death,…
Bhojalī: Song, Goddess, Friend. A Chhattisgarhi Women's Oral Tradition
Bhojalī: Song, Goddess, Friend. A Chhattisgarhi Women's Oral Tradition
Land of Wealth, Land of Famine: The Sua Nac (Parrot Dance) of Central India
Indigenous genre classifications are usually based upon a static view ofgenres and their systems, while an ethnographic approach to the study ofgenre reveals their flexibility. This article examines a central Indian tradition, the sua nac, orparrot dance, from such a perspective. It reveals two performance contexts for the tradition, which emphasize different aspects ofthegenre, but which also continue to influence each other
"He Should Have Worn a Sari": A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic
Oral Epics in India
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
Boundaries of the Text: Epic Performances in South and Southeast Asia
The Life of a Text: Performing the "Rāmacaritmānas" of Tulsidas
Oral Epics in India
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India
In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 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 emphasis on women’s rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of indigenous genres and the reception of folklore pe…
Appropriating the Epic Gender, Caste, and Regional Identity in Middle India
Contextualized identities, multiple voices, and agency in South Asia
Kumar, Nita, ed. Women as Subjects: South Asian Histories. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994. [no front‐matter] 239 pp. including index. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Mines, Mattison. Public Faces, Private Voices: Community and Individuality in South India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. x + 232 pp. including notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Raheja, Gloria Goodwin and Ann Grodzins Gold. …
Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. Patricia Jeffrey , Amrita Basu
Narrative Voices and Repertoire at a Healing Crossroads in South India
This article examines the strategic performance of narratives in the healing room of a Muslim female healer in south India. Narrative performances by the healer Amma, her husband (and Sufi pir), Abba, and Amma's patients both establish and distinguish the authorities of Amma and Abba and order and heal the lives of those who come to this healing crossroads. The strategic choices of narrative performance became poignantly clear after Abba's death,…
Standing in cement: Possibilities created by Ravan on the Chhattisgarhi Plains
Framed by recent interest in the agency of materiality, this essay analyses, through a performative-ethnographic lens, possibilities created and questions raised by the cement images of Ravan, the antagonist of the Ramayana epic tradition, found throughout the central plains of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. While in Ramayan verbal narratives, Ravan dies, here in Chhattisgarh, materially he stands and is much more visible than the hero…
When the Goddess Speaks Her Mind: Possession, Presence, and Narrative Theology in the Gaṅgamma Tradition of Tirupati, South India
Afterword: Multiplicities and Intersections of Homes and Fields
Multiple and context-specific terms for “home” in Indian languages can help us as ethnographers imagine and recognize home(s) and field(s) as non-binary, multiple, fluid, intersecting categories. In North India, these terms may include: mul nivas, gaon, ghar, maika (pihar), sasural. The terms identify home by ancestry, residence, performance and ritual, affect, landscapes, and familial and other relationships. Paying attention to the everyday use…
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