Anne Feldhaus is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is theauthor of Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra and Connected Places: Region,Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India, as well as several other books on religious traditions of Maharashtra. She is fluent in Marathi and has lived in India for several long periods.

This translation of two traditional oral narratives of a shepherd community in western India stands as a rich and copious archive of traditional narrative materials and ethnographic observations that will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars interested in oral performance, folk religion, or rural/pastoral culture in South Asia.

• List of Maps ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Part I. Introduction (by Anne Feldhaus) ; 1. Ovis and Dhangars ; 2. The Art of the Ovis ; 3. The World of the Ovis ; 4. Pastoralist Life and Identity ; 5. Gender and Women in the Ovis ; Part II. The Ovi of Birob? ; Part III. The Ovi of Dhuloba ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Anne Feldhaus is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is theauthor of Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra and Connected Places: Region,Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India, as well as several other books on religious traditions of Maharashtra. She is fluent in Marathi and has lived in India for several long periods.

This translation of two traditional oral narratives of a shepherd community in western India stands as a rich and copious archive of traditional narrative materials and ethnographic observations that will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars interested in oral performance, folk religion, or rural/pastoral culture in South Asia.

• List of Maps ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Part I. Introduction (by Anne Feldhaus) ; 1. Ovis and Dhangars ; 2. The Art of the Ovis ; 3. The World of the Ovis ; 4. Pastoralist Life and Identity ; 5. Gender and Women in the Ovis ; Part II. The Ovi of Birob? ; Part III. The Ovi of Dhuloba ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index

Anne Feldhaus is a Distinguished Foundation Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is theauthor of Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra and Connected Places: Region,Pilgrimage, and Geographical Imagination in India, as well as several other books on religious traditions of Maharashtra. She is fluent in Marathi and has lived in India for several long periods.

This translation of two traditional oral narratives of a shepherd community in western India stands as a rich and copious archive of traditional narrative materials and ethnographic observations that will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars interested in oral performance, folk religion, or rural/pastoral culture in South Asia.

• List of Maps ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; Part I. Introduction (by Anne Feldhaus) ; 1. Ovis and Dhangars ; 2. The Art of the Ovis ; 3. The World of the Ovis ; 4. Pastoralist Life and Identity ; 5. Gender and Women in the Ovis ; Part II. The Ovi of Birob? ; Part III. The Ovi of Dhuloba ; Bibliography ; Notes ; Index