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Bangladeshi Arts of the Ricksha

Author’s biography:

Joanna Kirkpatrick, Cultural Anthropolgist, PhD U.C. Berkeley, USA. Did research in India and Bangladesh. Last 20 years at work researching Bangladeshi ricksha arts and allied conveyance arts such as trucks, boats, other vehicles -- comparing them across cultures. Published scholarly and popular articles on ricksha art. Her multimedia, interactive CD-ROM on ricksha arts can be ordered from Indiana University press website. Release date is Fall 2002. Her collection of ricksha art panels and decorated hoods may be seen in the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, N.M.