Table of Contents:
  • From marriage genealogies to Archer's photos / Neel Rekha
  • Transforming craft into art / Tracey M. Black
  • The Mithila Art Institute / Kaushik Kumar Jha and David L. Szanton
  • The politics of Mithila painting / David L. Szanton
  • My life as an artist / Rani Jha, translated by Suman Jha
  • Personal experience, social norms, and Mithila painting / Vinita Sinha
  • The aesthetics of equality in marriage / Shalinee Kumari and Susan Snow Wadley
  • Color, rhythm and repetision in paintings by Dalit Women of Mithila / Mani Shekhar Singh
  • Trees of the honey forest / John H. Bowles
  • Representing Sita's Life / Paula Richman
  • Painting stories and filming change / Coralynn V. Davis
  • The murder of Phool Jha in Krishnanand Jha's drawings / Gursharan S. Sidhu
  • Exhibiting Mithila art in its cultural context / Katie Lazarowicz
  • The transnational field of Mithila paintings in teh 1970s / Helene Fleury and Damien Ehrhardt
  • Mithila painting as vernacular expression in the contemporary art world / Lina Vincent.