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EXHIBIT REVIEWS Live like the Banyan Tree: Images of the Indian American Experience. Temporary exhibit organized by the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia. Guest curated by Leela Prasad. 4 February31 December 1999. Funding provided by the William Penn Foundation and the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission. FRANK J. KOROM Boston University The banyan tree, with its amazing ability to drop down limbs that take root and become new entities while remaining firmly connected to the original trunk, is an apt indigenous metaphor for the transplanting of South Asians to the United States. With the vigorous interest in South Asian diasporan studies among scholars today, this display, initiated by the Balch Institute at the urging of influential members of the local Indian community who later served as consultants for the exhibition, is a timely undertaking. Folklorist Leela Prasad, herself an Indian living in the United States, was contracted to conceptualize the project and conduct the research on which it would be based. In collaboration with the staff at the Balch, Prasad has assembled an interesting collection of historical documents, artifacts, fragments of personal experience narratives culled from oral histories, and contemporary photographs (many shot by David H. Wells and
Journal of American Folklore – American Folklore Society
Published: Dec 1, 2001
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