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ARTICLES 1981 - 1990

1981
(Review) "Gopal Krishna, ed., Contributions to South Asian Studies 1, Delhi, Oxford University Press," American Ethnologist 8 (1, February): 211-212.

1981
"Gastro-Politics in Hindu South Asia," American Ethnologist 8 (3, August): 494-511.

1981
"The Past as a Scarce Resource," Man (N.S.) 16 (2, June): 201-219.

1981
"Rituals and Cultural Change," Reviews in Anthropology 8 (2, Spring): 121-138.

1983
"The Puzzling Status of Brahman Temple Priests in Hindu India," South Asian Anthropologist 4 (1, March): 43-52.

1984
"Wells in Western India: Irrigation and Cooperation in an Agricultural Society," Expedition 26 (3): 3-14.

1984
(with Gregory Possehl) "Cow," Man and Animals: Living, Working and Changing Together. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania: 47-56.

1984
"How Moral is South Asia's Economy? -- A Review Essay," Journal of Asian Studies 43 (3, May): 481-497.

1985
(Review) "The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, by G. Obeyesekere," Journal of Asian Studies 44 (3, May): 647-649.

1985
(Review) "Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia, Tim P. Bayliss-Smith and Sudhir Wanmali, eds.," Third World Quarterly (London).

1985
"Gratitude as a Social Mode in South India," Ethos 13 (3, Fall): 236-245.

1986
"Commodities and the Politics of Value," Introductory Essay, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. A. Appadurai (Ed.).Cambridge University Press, 3-63.

1986
"Center and Periphery in Anthropological Theory," Comparative Studies in Society and History 28 (2): 356-361.

1986
(with Wilhelm Halbfass) "History of the Study of Indian Religions," Encyclopaedia of Religion. Mircea Eliade, Editor. Macmillan, New York.

1986
"Is Homo Hierarchicus—A Review Essay," American Ethnologist 13 (4): 745-761.

1987
"Hinduism," Encyclopaedia of Asian History. New York: The Asia Society and Scribner and Sons, Volume 2: 56-59.

1987
"The Indian Cow," Encyclopaedia of Asian History. New York: The Asia Society and Scribner and Sons, Volume 1: 347.

1987
"Street Culture," The India Magazine 8 (1, December): 2-23.

1988
"How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India," Comparative Studies in Society and History 30 (1, January): 3-24.

1988
"Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory," Cultural Anthropology 3 (1, February): 16-20.

1988
"Putting Hierarchy in its Place," Cultural Anthropology 3 (1, February): 37-50.

1988
"Comment on Francis Zimmerman, The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats," Social Science and Medicine 27 (3): 206-207.

1988
"Imagined Worlds: The Decolonization of Cricket," The Olympics and Cultural Exchange. S.P. Kang, J. McAloon and R. da Matta (Eds.). Seoul: Hanyang University, Institute for Ethnographic Studies, 163-190.

1988
(With Carol Breckenridge) "Why Public Culture?" Public Culture 1 (1, Fall): 5-9.

1989
"Transformations in the Culture of Agriculture," Contemporary Indian Tradition. Carla Borden (Ed.). The Smithsonian Institution Press: Washington and London, 173-186.

1989
"Small-Scale Techniques and Large-Scale Objectives," Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists. P. Bardhan (Ed.). New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 250-282.

1990
"Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Public Culture (2) 2: 1-24 (Long Version).

1990
"Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Theory, Culture and Society 7 (2 and 3, July): 295-310 (Short Version).

1990
"Topographies of the Self: Praise and Emotion in Hindu India," Affecting Discourse: Anthropological Essays on Emotions and Social Life. C. Lutz and L. Abu-Lughod (Eds.). New York and London: Cambridge University Press: 92-112.

1990
"Technology and the Reproduction of Values in Western India," Dominating Knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance. S.A. Marglin and F.A. Marglin (Eds.). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1990
(with Carol A. Breckenridge) "Public Culture in Late 20th-Century India," Items 44 (4), December 1990: 77-80.