Are cultures readable? reconsidering some questions of method / Dietrich Harth -- The making of a local chronicle : the Raṇapur rājavaṃśa itihāsa / Hermann Kulke -- Ranpur resolved : spatial analysis of a town in Orissa based on a chronicle / Niels Gutschow -- Jaypur Parlakimedi Vizianaragaram : the southern gajapatis / Georg Berkemer -- Anecdotes of history : reflections on contexts and (hi)stories / Heiko Frese -- Devotion, poetry, and healing : exploring Bhīma Bhoi's stuticintāmaṇi / Johannes Beltz -- Mantra-recitation as a religious institution: Śrī Kalpataru Sevā Āśrama in Bhubaneswar / Angelika Malinar -- Creating performative texts : the introduction of Maṅgaḷā pūjā in Southern Orissa / Beatrix Hauser -- "Facing the trial by fire every day" : text and performative context in South Orissa / Burkhard Schnepel --

Entering the realm of Durgā : pāṭkhaṇḍā, a hinduized tribal deity / Cornelia Mallebrein -- Imaging Orissa : archaeology, art history, and cultural identity / Kishor K. Basa -- Gita-govinda traditions : a medieval debate and its impact on modern Oriya identity / Gaganendra Nath Dash -- Appropriating Jagannātha : texts, and their contexts / Subhakanta Behera -- Autobiographies of Oriya leaders : contributions to a cause / Barbara Lotz -- Tribal society of highland Orissa, highland Burma, and elsewhere / Georg Pfeffer -- Indology and the cultural turn / Axel Michaels.