Smita Tewari Jassal

Unearthing Gender

Folksongs of North India

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Smita Tewari Jassal is Associate Professor Anthropology, Graduate School of Social Sciences at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She is the author of Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh and is coauthor of The Partition Motif In Contemporary Conflicts: Germany, India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351306
• ISBN-10: 0822351307
• Artikelnr.: 34161612

Autorenporträt

Smita Tewari Jassal is Associate Professor Anthropology, Graduate School of Social Sciences at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She is the author of Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh and is coauthor of The Partition Motif In Contemporary Conflicts: Germany, India-Pakistan, Israel-Palestine.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation xvii
Introduction. The Unsung Sing 1
1. The Daily Grind 33
2. Singing Bargains 71
3. Biyah/Biraha: Emotions in a Rite of Passage 115
4. Sita's Trials 155
5. When War is Marriage 189
6. Taking Liberties 219
Conclusion. Taking Liberties 219
Notes 261
Glossary 271
Bibliography 277
Index 289