Other Writing

Book Reviews

Sudhir Patwardhan, The Complicit Observer, essay by Ranjit Hoskote. ArtIndia Magazine 10 (2):128-130, 2005.

Museum Anthropology into a New Millennium, editor’s introduction. Museum Anthropology 23(3):3, 2000.

Joanne Eicher, ed. Dress and Ethnicity. Identities, June, 1998.

Carol Hendrickson, Weaving Identities: Construction of Dress and Self in a Highland Guatemala Town, Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer, eds., Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes, and Emma Tarlo, Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India. Journal of Material Culture 3(1): 115-120, 1998.

Sinnappah Arasaratnam, Maritime India in the Seventeenth Century. The American Neptune 55(4): 361-63, 1995.

Museums and the Reformulation of Ethnographic Practice: Review article on Michael Ames, Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums and Ivan Karp et al. Museums and Communities. American Ethnologist 21(4):886–891, 1994.

B. Allchin, F.R. Allchin, B.K. Thapar, eds. Conservation of the Indian Heritage. Journal of Asian Studies 49(4),1990.

Study of a Painted Textile from the A.E.D.T.A. Collection. Hali, 33, 1987.

David Dean Shulman, The King and Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry. Journal of the American Oriental Society 107:3, 1987.

The Objects of Anthropology: Review article on Robert Rydell, All the World’s a Fair and George W. Stocking, ed., Objects and Others. American Ethnologist 14(3): 552–559, 1987

Mattison Mines, The Warrior Merchants: Textiles, Trade and Territory in South India. American Ethnologist 13(2): 394, 1986

Adrienne Lehrer, Wine and Conservation. American Anthropologist 87:698-99, 1985.

M.N. Srinivas, The Remembered Village. Newsletter of the Society for South India Studies. February: 4-5, 1978.

Susan Wadley, Shakti. Journal of Asian Studies 35:375-77, 1977.

Mary Sanches and Ben Blount, Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use. American Anthropologist 79: 696-98, 1977.

John Barnes, Three Styles in the Study of Kinship. American Anthropologist 78: 661, 1976.

 

Exhibition Reviews

Anju Dodiya: Room for Erasures. Exhibition at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai. Artforum, February, Pp. 265-66, 2013.

Puja, Expressions of Hindu Devotion. Exhibition at the Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. Museum Anthropology 21(3): 29-32, 1997.

The Hall of North America Indians: Change and Continuity. Exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. American Anthropologist 93(1): 264-65, 1991.

 

Travel Writing

Calcutta. Boston Sunday Globe, Travel, June 10, 1990.

Away from the Busy City, the Old Korea Lives On. Boston Sunday Globe, Travel, September 4, 1988.

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