Pravina Shukla

The Grace of Four Moons

Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

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Produktbeschreibung

Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is author of Costume: Performing Identities through Dress (IUP, 2015) and editor (with Ray Cashman and Tom Mould) of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives (IUP, 2011).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1042g
• ISBN-13: 9780253021137
• ISBN-10: 0253021138
• Artikelnr.: 43710244

Autorenporträt

Pravina Shukla

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Introduction
1. Body Art in Banaras
2. Getting Ready
3. Gaze, Sacred and Secular
Part 2. Production and Commerce
4. Shopping for Clothes
5. Weaving Saris
6. Making Jewelry
7. Kanhaiya Lal
8. Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali
9. Assembling Bangle Sets
Part 3. Personal Adornment
10. Nina Khanchandani
11. Neelam Chaturvedi
12. Mukta Tripathi
Part 4. Body Art in the Lifecycle
13. After the Wedding
14. Before the Wedding
15. The Wedding
Part 5. Conclusion
16. The Study of Body Art
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index