In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City, and Memory in a Global Religious Movement

Smriti Srinivas, Ph.D. in Sociology (Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University), is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Mouths of People, the Voice of God: Buddhists and Muslims in a Frontier Community of Ladakh (1998), and Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Civic in India's High-Tech City (2001). Her research interests are urban cultures, memory, cultures of the body/performance, and religion.