March 1997 Volume 12, Number 1 : South Asian Oral Traditions Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles The Paradoxes of Power and Community: Women’s Oral Traditions and the Uses of Ethnography Gloria Goodwin Raheja The Beggared Mother: Older Women’s Narratives in West Bengal Sarah Lamb Singing From Separation: Women’s Voices in and about Kangra Folksongs Kirin Narayan “There are Only Two Castes: Men and Women”: Negotiating Gender as a Female Healer in South Asian Islam Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Outspoken Women: Representations of Female Voices in a Rajasthani Folklore Community Ann Grodzins Gold Two Houses and the Pain of Separation in Tamang Narratives from Highland Nepal Kathryn S. March Negotiated Solidarities: Gendered Representations of Disruption and Desire in North Indian Oral Traditions and Popular Culture Gloria Goodwin Raheja “A Flowering Tree”: A Woman’s Tale A. K. Ramanujan Supplemental Materials About the Authors