Lisa I Knight

Contradictory Lives

Baul Women in India and Bangladesh

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Produktbeschreibung

In this multi-sited ethnographic study, Knight explores the everyday lives of women of the Baul tradition of musical mystics in India and Bangladesh. She demonstrates that Baul women construct a meaningful life as they navigate between conflicting expectations of Bauls to be carefree and of women to be modest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199773541
• ISBN-10: 0199773548
• Artikelnr.: 32463285

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies, Furman University

Inhaltsangabe

* Part 1: Multiple Sites Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: "Real Bauls
Live under Trees:" Scholarly and Popular Imaginings of Bauls and the
Marginalization of Baul Women Chapter 3: "I've Done Nothing Wrong:"
Feminine Respectability and Baul Expectations Part 2: Negotiations
Chapter 4: Negotiating between Paradigms of the Good Baul and the
Good Woman Chapter 5: "Do Not Neglect This Golden Body of Yours:"
Personal and Social Transformation through Baul Songs Chapter 6:
Renouncing Expectations Concluding Thoughts Glossary Bibliography