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Wendy J. N. Lee, Director, Pad Tatra: A Green Odyssey 72 Minutes. Color. Los Angeles: Good Docs, 2013. $129.00 (NonInstitutional); $229.00 (Institutional). http://www.padyatrafilm.com/. IT HAS BEEN almost half a century [...]

Paul G. Hackett, Theos Bernard, The White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life New York: Columbia University Press, 520 pages. Notes, bibliography, plates, index. Hardcover, US$26.00//18.00 £. ISBN 978-0-231-15887-9. [...]

Sadhana Naithani, The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.145 pages, preface, endnotes, bibliography, index. Cloth, us$50.00; isbn 978-1-60473-455-3. IN THIS short [...]

HANDOO, JAWAHARLAL, editor. Folklore in Modern India. ISFNR XIth Congress Papers, volume 3. Mysore, India: Central Institute of Indian Languages, 1998. viii + 232 pages. Cloth, n.p.; ISBN 81-7342-053-X. HONKO, [...]

This article intends to raise questions related to nationalism in South Asia, while also addressing the rationale for this special issue. Is nationalism a monolithic construct based on a European precedent or is it something much larger that is developed pluralistically in a variety of contexts around the world? If the latter is true, which is our position, then how do we go about studying the various versions of global nationalism? We argue that good comparison is based on both similarity and difference. To make a case for multiple versions of nationalism, the articles included herein focus on the Indian Subcontinent. Each article looks at a particular country belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the intergovernmental group representing the geopolitical union of states in South Asia, which was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1985. The overall purpose of this collection of articles is to highlight the varieties of nationalism found in the region, with the goal of interrogating the idea of a singular form of nationalism inherited by postcolonial societies from their European colonizers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alex Norman and Carole M. Cusack, eds., Religion, Pilgrimage, and Tourism Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2015. 1,618 pages. 4 volume set. Hardback $1,345.00. ISBN 978-1-13-801488-6. STUDIES OF PILGRIMAGE have been [...]

Ann Gold has provided us with sensitive commentaries on Rajasthani culture in the past (Gold 1988). In this volume she presents a critical study and translation of two interrelated epic [...]

Anthropological autobiography is an interesting genre for a number of reasons. For example, it provides the reader with interesting facts and accounts about the host society that often do not [...]

Edited by ANVITA ABBI. MLBD Series in Linguistics, vol. 10. Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 1997. Pp. xiv + 494, introduction, appendix, index. Rs 595. Given the fact that the 1981 Census [...]

By WILLIAM R. PINCH. Berkeley and Los Angeles: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1996. Pp. xi + 242, map, table, notes, bibliography, 3 appendixes. $55 (cloth); $22 (paper). In this solid [...]