I. p. South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia. (Jointly edited with Margaret Mills). New York: Garland Press.

I. p.   “Variability in the Tulu Paddanas.”  In, Cahiers de Littérature Orale. 

2002    Book Review, “The Siri Epic, by Lauri Honko (in collaboration with Chiinnappa Gowda, et. al)". Anthropos.

2001   Essays in Performance Analysis.  Shimoga, India: Kuvempu University Press.

2000    “The Concept of ‘Mental Text.’” National Folklore Support Centre Newsletter, Special edition on Folklore Syncretism.

1999a    Film Review, “Teyyam: Annual Visit by the God Vishnumurthi” American Anthropologist 101(3).

1999b    “Preface.” In Folk Poetics, by Veeranna S. Dande.  Udupi (India):  Regional Resource Centre for Folk Performing Arts.

1999c    "Musical Traditions of Coastal Karnataka." and "Musical Traditions of Kodagu."  In Garland Encyclopedia of World Music .

1999d    “Preface.” In Folk Poetics, by Veeranna S. Dande.  Udupi (India):  Regional Resource Centre for Folk Performing Arts.

1998. "Folklore." In India's Worlds and U.S. Scholars, 1947-1997 , edited by Joseph W. Elder, Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Ainslie T. Embree. New Delhi: Manohar. Pp. 211-236.

1997a "Ritual Performances in India". In Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, edited by Stephen D. Glazier. Westport (Connecticut): Greenwood Press. Pp. 191-209.

1997b "Ritual Transforms a Myth". South Indian Folklorist. Vol. 1, no. 1: pp. 37-57.

1995 Designing Regional Folklife Documentation Centres. In Computerizing Cultures, edited by Baidyanath Saraswati.. New Delhi: New Age International (P) LImited, Publishers. Pp. 122- 135.

1993 "Text Variability and Authenticity in the Siri Cult." In, Flags of Fame: Studies in South Asian Folk Culture, edited by Heidrun Brckner, et. al. Delhi: The Inter-regional Seminar, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Pp. 335-374.

1991a Folkloristics and Indian Folklore. (Jointly written with Frank J. Korom) Series: Publications in International Folkloristics. Udupi (India): Regional Resource Centre for Folk Performing Arts. Pp. 350.

1991b "Kinsongs." In Arjun Appadurai, Frank J. Korom and Margaret Mills, eds., Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 136-177

1991c "Tulu Paddanas: Text and Performance." In Perspectives on Dakshina Kannada and Kodagu, edited by the Editorial Committee, Mangalore University Decennial Volume. Mangalagangotri (Karnataka, India): Mangalore University. Pp. 1-10.

1989a Oral Epics in India (jointly edited with S. Blackburn, S. Wadley and J. Flueckiger). University of California Press.

1989b "Behind the Text: Performance and Ideology in a Tulu Oral Tradition". Indian Oral Epics edited by Peter J. Claus, S. Blackburn, S. Wadley and J. Flueckiger.

1988 Future Research in Tulu Culture. Academy Silver Jubilee Lecture 4. Manipal (India): Academy of General Education, Manipal.

1987a Folktales of India (jointly edited with Brenda E. F. Beck, J. Handoo and P. Goswami) Folktales of the World Series. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

l987b Indian Folklore II (jointly edited with Dr. D. P. Pattanayak and J. Handoo) Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Press.

1987c Tuluva Darshana. (In Kannada, a collection of eight research articles translated by A. V. Nadava and Subhashchandra.) Kundapur, India: Pradesika Vyasanga.

1987d "Tulu PaaDdanagaLu: Jijnyaase" (in Kannada). In Erya Laxminarayana Alva, ed., Mangala Thimaru. pp. 62-65. Mangalore: Siddhartha Mudranaalya.

1986a Playing cenne: The meanings of a folk game" in Another Harmony: New Essays on the Folklore of India, Stuart Blackburn and A.K. Ramanujan, eds.,. pp. 265-293. Berkeley: University of California Press.

1986b "The New Folklore: Review and Comment" in Studies in South India, edited by Pauline Kolenda and Robert Frykenberg. Pp. 195-216.

l984 "Medical Anthropology and the Ethnography of Spirit Possession" Contributions to Asian Studies edited by Judy Pugh and Valentine Daniel.

l982 "A Structuralist Appreciation of Star Trek", in Anthropology for the Eighties, edited by Johnetta B. Cole. New York: Free Press, pp. 417-429.

l981a Indian Folklore I (jointly edited with Dr. D.P. Pattanayak). Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Press.

l981b "Indian Folk Epics" in Indian Folklore I, Peter J. Claus and D. P. Pattanayak, eds. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Press, pp. 6-21.

l979a "Spirit Possession and Mediumship from the Perspective of Tulu Oral Traditions" Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 3:29-52.

l979b "Mayndala: A Myth and Cult of Tulunad" Asian Folklore Studies, 38 (2):95-129.

l978a "Terminological Aspects of Tulu Kinship: Kin Terms, Kin Sets and Kin Groups of the Matrilineal Castes: American Studies in the Anthropology of India, ed. by Sylvia Vatuk.

l978b "Oral Traditions, Royal Cults and Materials for a Reconsideration of the Caste System in South India" Journal of Indian Folklore, 1, (1):1-25.

l978c "Heroes and Heroines in the Conceptual Framework of Tulu Culture: Journal of Indian Folkloristics, 1, (2):28-42.

l976 "The Structure of Star Trek" in American Dimensions, Cultural Myths and Social Reality, William Arens and Susan Montague, eds. New York: Alfred Publishing Co. pp. 15-32.

l975a "Siri Myth and Ritual: Description of a Mass Possession Cult of South India" Ethnology, 14, (1):47-58.

l975b "The Cultural Ecology of a Paddy Tract: Tools and Tillage , 2, (4):211-227.

l975c "Determinants of Household Organization among Tenants and Landowners of the Bant-Nadava Caste Complex" Contributions to Indian Sociology (NS) 9, (1):91-110.

l970 Kinship Organization of the Bant-Nadava Caste Complex (Ph.D. dissertation).

PAPERS RECENTLY PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1995 "A Folk View of Variation in the Tulu Paddana Tradition". XIth International Society for Folk Narrative Research Conference, Mysore, India.

1993c "Variability in the Tulu Paddanas." Conference on Dravidian Language and Literature Stugart, Germany (to be published in 1996.)

1991 "Dravidian Brothers and Sisters: A Review of Recent Theories of Cross-Cousin Marriage". Inter-regional Seminar, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.

1989 "Wedding Videos." Paper presented at the American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.

1987 "What One Needs to Know to Reconstruct Agricultural Discourse." Conference on Agricultural Discourse (sponsored by the Social Science Research Council), Durham, NH. October 9-11, 1987.

1986 A story of a paddana: comparison of a ballad sung and spoken as conversational narrative." Paper Presented at the panel, Speech, Text and Performance: Discourse in South and Southeast Asia . Conference on South Asia, Madison, November,

1986 "Agriculture and Agricultural Terminology in a Monsoon Rice Cultivation System" Conference on Agricultural Terminology (sponsored by the Social Science Research Council), New Orleans, January, 1986.

1986 "Translating Performance." Cambridge University. January, 1986.

1986 "Translating Performance" Conference on Folk Performing Arts in Coastal Karnataka, Udupi, India, February, 1986.