Recasting Folk in the Himalayas Angela Ricketts founding a theater company and

founding a theater company and directing plays under the increasing pressure of the censorship authorities and the Shah's secret police

a brilliant physician and notorious philanderer

" From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism

As a modern and modernizing hero

' preserved its profitability for many years

Recasting Folk in the Himalayas Angela Ricketts founding a theater company andThe clash of music and the modern world in an emerging Indian state Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences and explore a paradox: how the folk designation can alternately identify a universal stage of humanity, or denote alterity and