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Kirin Narayan's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Kirin Narayan is an Indian-born American anthropologist, folklorist and writer. Early life, education, and career Narayan is the daughter of Narayan Ramji Contractor, a civil engineer from Nashik, and Didi Kinzinger, a German-American "artist, decorator, and builder of sustainable housing". Narayan was born in Bombay, attended school in India and came to the United States in 1976.

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Kirin Narayan's Published Works

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Published Works

How Native Is a "Native" Anthropologist? (1993) (1092)
Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching (1989) (193)
Divine passions : the social construction of emotion in India (1991) (139)
Ethnography and Fiction: Where Is the Border? (1999) (121)
Alive in the Writing: Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov (2012) (50)
Tools to Shape Texts: What Creative Nonfiction Can Offer Ethnography (2007) (50)
Mondays on the Dark Night of the Moon: Himalayan Foothill Folktales (1998) (43)
Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation (2001) (40)
The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography (2006) (37)
Birds on a Branch: Girlfriends and Wedding Songs in Kangra (1986) (30)
Refractions of the Field at Home: American Representations of Hindu Holy Men in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1993) (30)
Banana republics and V.I. degrees: rethinking Indian folklore in a postcolonial world (1993) (24)
The Practice of Oral Literary Criticism: Women's Songs in Kangra, India (1995) (23)
Net of Magic. Wonders and Deceptions in India (1991) (20)
A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India (1997) (18)
Introduction : Creativity in Anthropology (2018) (15)
Storytellers, Saints and Scoundrels (1989) (14)
Eight Words for the Study of Expressive Culture (2005) (13)
Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India (1995) (13)
Singing from Separation: Women's Voices in and about Kangra Folksongs (1997) (12)
"Honor is honor after all": silence and speech in the life stories of women in Kangra, North-West India (2004) (10)
Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian Americans (2010) (10)
Stories About Getting Stories: Interactional Dimensions in Folk and Personal Narrative Research (2012) (10)
My Family and Other Saints (2007) (9)
Love, stars, and all that (1994) (4)
Vishwakarma: God of technology (2018) (4)
Tools and world-making in the worship of Vishwakarma (2017) (4)
Priceless Enthusiasm: The Pursuit of Shauq in South Asia (2019) (4)
Gender and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions (1994) (4)
Everyday Creativity: Singing Goddesses in the Himalayan Foothills (2016) (3)
Haunting Stories: Narrative Transmissions of South Asian Identities in Diaspora (2004) (3)
Collaborative ethnography and a grandfather's stories (2015) (2)
"Or in Other Words": Recasting Grand Theory (2008) (2)
Moving Stories: Beyond the Local in Ethnography and Fiction (2007) (2)
Songs Lodged in Some Hearts: Displacements of Women’s Knowledge in Kangra (2012) (2)
Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation [reprint] (2003) (2)
The Social Life of Transcriptions: Interactions around Women’s Songs in Kangra (2015) (2)
Legends and Family Folklore (2007) (2)
Orality, Inscription and the Creation of a New Lore (2007) (1)
Black American Street Life: South Philadelphia, 1969-1971. (1990) (1)
14. Ethnographic Writing with Kirin Narayan: An Interview (2020) (1)
Folklore of Himachal Pradesh (2003) (1)
Culture (2017) (1)
Stirring up Ethnography: Beyond the Finished Text (2009) (1)
Chekhov as Ethnographic Muse (2016) (1)
Sprouting and uprooting of Saili. The Story of the sacred Tulsi in Kangra (1997) (1)
The ascetic practice of eating sweets: transcribing oral narrative (2008) (1)
First Sour, Then Sweet: Women's Ritual Story Telling in the Himalayan Foothills (1996) (1)
Narrating Creative Process (2014) (1)
39 Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation (2001) (1)
3.3 'HOW NATIVE IS A "NATIVE" ANTHROPOLOGIST?' (2003) (1)
Introduction: Situating Old Deccan Days (2002) (1)
2. On Nose Cutters , Gurus, and Storytellers (2018) (1)
A Time for Stories (1994) (1)
Technophany and Its Publics: Artisans, Technicians, and the Rise of Vishwakarma Worship in India (2022) (1)
Readers of the ‘Lost’ Purana: mythopolitics and Suthar caste identity in Gujarat (2022) (1)
9. The Divine Storyteller (1989) (0)
Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment: Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas. By Aditya Malik. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxi, 295 pp. ISBN: 9780199325092 (cloth, also available as e-book). (2018) (0)
10. The Moon Pearl (2019) (0)
Appendix 11: Map of India (1989) (0)
Entranced by the Goddess: Folklore in North Indian Religion (2008) (0)
White-bearers: views of the Dhauladhar (2002) (0)
WHEN DO WORDS COUNT? (2020) (0)
Pahari Paintings and Kangra Women's Songs (2013) (0)
Vishwakarma Across India and Beyond: Tools and World-Making (2018) (0)
The Assembly of Listeners: Jains in Society. MICHAEL CARRITHERS and CAROLINE HUMPHREY (1994) (0)
1. Tending Lives through Songs (2019) (0)
Rethinking Indian Folklore in a Postcolonial World (2016) (0)
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World (2022) (0)
5. When Do Words Count? (2020) (0)
10. The World of the Stories (1989) (0)
Chaube and William Crooke and Sirigannada Contemporary Writings in Kannada. A look at the evolution of human civilization depicts the symbiotic connection between the beginning of community living and folk lore (2016) (0)
The Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India . By A. K. Ramanujan. Edited by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xvi, 270 pp. $48.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). (1998) (0)
5. Loincloths and Celibacy (1989) (0)
Stories from the FIELD: Crafting Narrative Ethnography (2014) (0)
6. Bathing: The Transformative Flows of Sound (2019) (0)
How a Girl Became a Sacred Plant (2020) (0)
2. Lives and Stories (1989) (0)
Vanishing Ethnographers: Photo Wallahs . David MacDougall, Judith MacDougall. (1994) (0)
Transmissions and Transitions in Indian Oral Traditions: An Introduction (2016) (0)
Anthropologist and novelist (1999) (0)
3. Attaining: The Mountain Daughter’s Many Forms (2019) (0)
Appendix I: Glossary of Commonly Used Hindi Terms (1989) (0)
1. There's Always a Reason (1989) (0)
4. The Listeners (1989) (0)
Reaching the Head (2019) (0)
7. Gurus and Urugs (2019) (0)
The Prince with Six Fingers (2020) (0)
11. Storytelling as Religious Teaching (1989) (0)
[Book Review: The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship] (2006) (0)
Come Out and Serve (1995) (0)
A Belly Full of Sweets: Hindu Tales of Inner Wealth with Cards and Posters (2001) (0)
7. Death and Laughter (1989) (0)
6. False Gurus and Gullible Disciples (1989) (0)
2. The Ground That Grows Songs (2019) (0)
8. Heaven and Hell (1989) (0)
5. Going: Saili as Plant and Goddess (2019) (0)
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION (2019) (0)
Moral Fictions: Tamil Folktales from Oral Tradition . By Stuart Blackburn. Folklore Fellows' Communications, no. 278. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2001. 338 pp. (2003) (0)
Local Boons: The Many Lives of Family Stories (2012) (0)
12. Twin Goddess (2019) (0)
How native is a "native" anthropologist? [reprint] (1996) (0)
Colonialism and folklore (2003) (0)
Overlapping Endeavors: Anthropology and Literature (1995) (0)

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