PIKA GHOSH
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
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Architecture in South Asia - form, ritual, political and cultural meanings
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Bengal Temples
and Mosques - Architecture and Terra Cotta Ornamentation
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Vernacular Architecture and its relation to monumental structures
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"Folk" Arts of Eastern India - Narrative Handscrolls, Kalighat Painting
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Domestic shrines
COURSES TAUGHT
PUBLICATIONS
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with Michael Meister, Cooking
for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, and Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1996.
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"Introduction" in Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal.
edited
with Michael Meister, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, and
Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1995.
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"Household Rituals andWomen's Domains" in Cooking for the Gods: The
Art of Home Ritual in Bengal.
edited with Michael Meister, Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, and Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1995.
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"Catalog" in Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal.
edited
with Michael Meister, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, and
Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum, 1995.
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"Story of a Storyteller's Scroll" RES 37 (2000) forthcoming.
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"Pre-modern Bengal Architecture" in Encyclopedia of South Asian Folklore.
Edited by Margaret Mills and Peter J. Klaus, Routledge (forthcoming)
EXHIBITIONS
Cooking for the Gods. The Newark Museum, 1996.
with Darielle Mason, Threads of Cotton, Threads of Brass: Arts of
Eastern India and Bangladesh from the Stella Kramrisch Collection.
1998.