Eight Dog Ladies and the Beriya Baba
1. I have heard several versions of this couplet. I cite the variant printed in the 1909 Benares Gazetteer (Novill 1909: 90-91), reading Nevill's "sewa" in the second line as the more grammatical sevan . [BACK]
2. Chadha 1988. [BACK]
3. Eck 1982. [BACK]
4. White 1989. [BACK]
5. Drèze and Chen 1992; Agarwal 1994. [BACK]
6. Carstairs 1983; Chen n.d. [BACK]
7. Scheper-Hughes 1992. [BACK]
8. Evans-Pritchard 1937; Favret-Saada 1980. [BACK]
9. Freud 1995: 126, 127. [BACK]
10. Taussig 1980: 181, 230-31. [BACK]
11. See the ethnographies of Saletore 1981 and Kapur 1983 and the writing of Premchand 1988, Bandyopadhyay 1990, and Devi 1990. [BACK]
12. Carstairs 1958, Kakar 1981. [BACK]
13. Obeysekere 1990. [BACK]
14. See Kurtz 1992. [BACK]
15. Carstairs 1983: 63; Chen n.d. [BACK]
16. Premchand 1988: 35, 36. [BACK]
17. Saraswati 1984. [BACK]
18. Premchand 1978 [1921]: 144, 145 (my translation). [BACK]
19. Bhagavata Purana (III. 30. 12-15), Part 1, 1976:398. [BACK]
20. Bhagavata Purana (VII. 14. 9, 11), Part 3, 1976: 980, 981. [BACK]
21. S. Sinha and Saraswati 1978: 50. [BACK]
22. Parry 1982, Svoboda 1986. [BACK]
23. Tambiah 1984: 345. [BACK]
24. For the former, see Howes (ed.) 1991. [BACK]
25. Eck 1981: 4-5. [BACK]
26. Amin 1988. [BACK]
27. Turner 1974: 193-96. [BACK]
28. Munn 1992., O[?]sto[?]r 1993. [BACK]
29. Radcliffe-Brown 1940. [BACK]
1. Myerhoff 1978. [BACK]