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.

• 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

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.