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.
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.
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
* 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
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