Welcome to Deepa Reddy's (forever evolving & soon-to-be-updated) Web Site, mostly for my students at

The University of Houston-Clear Lake

It's quite the swirl in there, so enter only if you're prepared to dance ...

My course pages:

Contemporary Cultural Anthropology | Peoples/Cultures of Asia
Food and Culture | Gender & War
Women in Society/Gender, Culture, Power
Women of Color | Political Economy [coming soon]
Theories of Cultural Diversity | Cross-Cultural Methods | WebCT

and finally Women's Studies Research Resources

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My Research:
| my CV |The book that was finally born |
The ELSI-HapMap Project |
"The Ethnicity of Caste" | "Good Gifts for the Common good" [PDF][PubMed] | "Caught in Collaboration" [PDF][PubMed]

"Hindu Trans-nationalisms" conference website;
part of a collaborative network project on "The public representation of a religion called Hinduism"

Programs with which I'm affiliated:

Anthropology | Cross Cultural Studies
Political Science | Women's Studies |

Indian Student Association

some of my painted work [also to be updated soon] + some words about Akshara, my library project in Pondicherry, here and here (& our very incomplete book catalog on LibraryThing)

And of course, an all-important Page for the Boys
[coming soon: they grow much too fast to keep up!]

Photo by Shrikanth Reddy:
Dandia-Raas at the Gujarati Samaj's 2004 Navaratri Celebrations, George R. Brown Convention Center
CSS borrowed (but then modified) from harpold.com