Ann Grodzins Gold is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion at Syracuse University, New York. Her current book project, “Shiptown: North Indian Passages between Rural and Urban,” is supported by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Humanities Center. Her publications include: Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (1988); A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand (1992); Listen to the Heron’s Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (1994, co-authored with Gloria Raheja); and In the Time of Trees and Sorrows: Nature, Power, and Memory in Rajasthan (2002, co-authored with Bhoju Ram Gujar).