Post-Field Positionings Guest Editor: Susan Seizer
1 Indian AFolklife QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FROM NATIONAL FOLKLORE SUPPORT CENTRE Serial No.23 August 2006 Post-field Positionings Guest Editor: Susan Seizer INDIAN FOLKLIFE SERIAL NO.23 AUGUST 2006 2 BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN Jyotindra Jain Professor and Dean, School of Arts and Aesthetics, NATIONAL FOLKLORE SUPPORT CENTRE Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC) is a non- TRUSTEES governmental, non-profit organisation, registered in Chennai Ajay S. Mehta Executive Director, National Foundation for India, India Habitat Centre, dedicated to the promotion of Indian folklore research, education, Zone 4-A, UG Floor, Lodhi Road, New Delhi training, networking and publications. The aim of the centre is Ashoke Chatterjee to integrate scholarship with activism, aesthetic appreciation with B-1002, Rushin Tower, Behind Someshwar 2, Satellite Road, community development, comparative folklore studies with Ahmedabad cultural diversities and identities, dissemination of information N. Bhakthavathsala Reddy with multi-disciplinary dialogues, folklore fieldwork with Dean, School of Folk and Tribal Lore, Warangal developmental issues and folklore advocacy with public Dadi D. Pudumjee Managing Trustee, The Ishara Puppet Theatre Trust, programming events. Folklore is a tradition based on any expressive B2/2211 Vasant Kunj, New Delhi behaviour that brings a group together, creates a convention and Deborah Thiagarajan commits it to cultural memory. NFSC aims to achieve its goals President, Madras Craft Foundation, Chennai through cooperative and experimental activities at various levels. Molly Kaushal NFSC is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Associate Professor, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, C.V. Mess, Janpath, New Delhi CONTENTS Munira Sen Executive Director, Madhyam, Bangalore Post-field Positionings ...................................
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