Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting a
Exploring the recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life this book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonati
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A collaborative ethnography that collects ordinary persons' recollections of everyday life, politics, and the environment in Rajasthan from when the state was a
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