Lisa I. Knight

Contradictory Lives

Baul Women in India and Bangladesh

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9780199396849
• ISBN-10: 0199396841
• Artikelnr.: 47867511

Autorenporträt

Lisa I Knight is Associate Professor of South Asian religions at Furman University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Note on Diacritics, Transliteration, and Names
* List of Maps and Figures
* Part 1: Multiple Sites
* 1. Finding Baul Women
* 2. "Real Bauls Live under Trees:" Imaginings and the Marginalization
of Baul Women
* 3. "I've Done Nothing Wrong:" Feminine Respectibility and Baul
Expectations
* Part 2: Negotiations
* 4. Negotiating between Paradigms of the Good Baul and the Good Woman
* 5. "Do Not Neglect This Golden Body of Yours:" Personal and Social
Transformation through Baul Songs
* 6. Renouncing Expectations
* Concluding Thoughts
* Glossry
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index