Table of Contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Editor's Column
• About the Authors (Back Matter)
• Articles
• Words of Truth: Authority and Agency in Ritual and Legal Speeches in the Himalayas
  by Anne de Sales, Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
• Authoritative Modes of Speech in a Central Himalayan Ritual
  by John Leavitt
• The Untouchable Bard as Author of his Royal Patron: A Social Approach to Oral Epic Poetry in Western Nepal
  by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
• The Sources of Authority for Shamanic Speech: Examples from the Kham-Magar of Nepal
  by Anne de Sales
• Meaning, Intention, and Responsibility in Rai Divinatory Discourse
  by Martin Gaenszle
• The House of Letters: Musical Apprenticeship among the Newar Farmers (Kathmandu Valley, Nepal)
  by Franck Bernède
• Imparting and (Re-)Confirming Order to the World: Authoritative Speech Traditions and Socio-political Assemblies in Spiti, Upper Kinnaur, and Purang in the Past and Present
  by Christian Jahoda
• The Authority of Law and the Production of Truth in India
  by Daniela Berti
• Engendering Minorities in Nepal: The Authority of Legal Discourse and the Production of Truth
  by Barbara Berardi Tadié
• Authority, Status, and Caste Markers in Everyday Village Conversations: the Example of Eastern Nepal
  by Pustak Ghimire

[Collection created May 30, 2018]