Editors’ Note
Korom, Frank J., and Benjamin Dorman
Guest Editors’ Introduction: Indigeneity, Performance, and the State in South Asia and Beyond
Wolf, Richard K., and Frank Heidemann
Dimensions of Indigeneity in Highland Odisha, India
Berger, Peter
Placing Indigeneity: Betta Kurumba Narratives of Territory and Clan Structure
Coelho, Gail
Tribal and Modern Voices in South Indian Kota Society
Wolf, Richard K.
Objectification and Social Aesthetics: Memoranda and the Celebration of “Badaga Day”
Heidemann, Frank
The Social Life of an Ethnonym: The “Kattu Nayaka” of South India
Bird-David, Nurit
Fertility or Indigeneity? Two Versions of the Santal Flower Festival
Schulte-Droesch, Lea
VCD Crossovers: Cultural Practice, Ideas of Belonging, and Santali Popular Movies
Schleiter, Markus
The “Bison Horn” Muria: Making it “More Tribal” for a Folk Dance Competition in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
Prévôt, Nicolas
Contact Zone: Ethnohistorical Notes on the Relationship between Kings and Tribes in Middle India
Schnepel, Burkhard
Ethnographies of States and Tribes in Highland Odisha
Pfeffer, Georg
Afterword
Hockings, Paul
Review of: Sam Gill, Dancing Culture Religion
Shay, Anthony
Review of: Laura Hirvi, Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Leonard, Karen
Review of: John Baily, Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Mohammad
Sumits, William
Review of: Beth Szczepanski, The Instrumental Music of Wutaishan’s Buddhist Monasteries: Social and Ritual Contexts
Stock, Jonathan P. J.
Review of: Emily Chao, Lijiang Stories: Shamans, Taxi Drivers, and Runaway Brides in Reform-Era China
Jinba, Tenzin
Review of: Anne Murphy, The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition
Rinehart, Robin
Review of: Akhil Gupta, Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Gamburd, Michele Ruth
Review of: Teena Purohit, The Aga Khan Case: Religion and Identity in Colonial India
Shodhan, Amrita
Review of: Jeanne Hein and V. S. Rajam, The Earliest Missionary Grammar of Tamil: Fr. Henriques’ Arte da Lingua Malabar: Translation, History and Analysis
Tschacher, Torsten
Review of: Amitabh SenGupta, Scroll Paintings of Bengal: Art in the Village
Ghosh, Pika
Review of: Smita Tewari Jassal, Unearthing Gender: Folksongs of North India
Davis, Coralynn V.
Review of: Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long, eds., Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Métraux, Daniel A.
Review of: Yasui Manami, Shussan kankyō no minzokugaku: “Dai san ji osan kakumei” ni mukete
Reider, Noriko T.
Review of: Ian Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story
Morisawa, Tomohiro
Review of: Merry White, Coffee Life in Japan
Creighton, Millie
Review of: Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
Gupta, Radhika
Review of: Sharika Thiranagama, In My Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka
McGilvray, Dennis B.
Review of: Michele Ruth Gamburd, The Golden Wave: Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster
Feener, R. Michael
Review of: Dhana Hughes, Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror, and Gordon Weiss, The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
Gamburd, Michele Ruth
Review of: Emily T. Yeh, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
Thurston, Timothy
Review of: Tanya Zivkovic, Death and Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: In-between Bodies
McKay, A. C.