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John Freeman

Lecturing Fellow in the Department of History
History
Dept. of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
112 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Taste

Journal Article Material Religion · March 2011 Cite

Kerala; Onam; Tottam

Chapter · November 11, 2004 Cite

Review of Kerala Brahmins in Transition: A Study of a Nampūtiri Family by Marjatta Parpola

Journal Article Journal of the American Oriental Society · April 2004 Full text Cite

Thereupon Hangs a Tail: The Deification of Vali in the Teyyam Worship of Malabar

Chapter · January 1, 2001 A wide-ranging examination of the many different versions of India's greatest epic, the Ramayana, focusing on versions that subvert the dominant readings of the work. ... Cite

Gods, Groves, and and Culture of Nature in Northern Kerala

Journal Article Modern Asian Studies · 1999 Cite

Rubies and Coral: The Lapidary Crafting of Language in Kerala

Journal Article The Journal of Asian Studies · February 1998 Rich Freeman assesses the emergence of Malayalam as a hybrid literary form in terms of its complex relationship with the regional hegemony of Tamil on the one hand and the transregional influence of Sanskrit on the other hand. ... Full text Cite

Cultural Ideologies of Language in Precolonial India: A Symposium

Journal Article The Journal of Asian Studies · February 1998 "Cultural Ideologies of Language in Precolonial India: A Symposium" leads off this issue. As Rich Freeman’s introduction to the symposium states, all three articles in this collection are aimed at locating "the particular histories of a language or set of ... Full text Cite

Cultural Ideologies of Language in Pre-Colonial India: A Symposium

Journal Article Journal of Asian Studies · 1998 Cite

Formalized Possession among the Tantris and Teyyams of Malabar

Journal Article South Asia Research · 1998 Cite

Formalized Possession: The Tantric-Folk Continuum in the Hindu Worship of Northern Kerala

Journal Article Diskus: The On-Disk Journal of International Religious Studies · 1994 Cite