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Contradictory Lives - Lisa I. Knight

Contradictory Lives

Baul Women in India and Bangladesh

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Buch | Softcover
236 Seiten
2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-939684-9 (ISBN)
CHF 66,90 inkl. MwSt
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.
In literature and popular imagination, the Bauls of India and Bangladesh are characterized as musical mystics: orange-clad nomads of both Hindu and Muslim backgrounds who wander the countryside and entertain with their passionate singing and unusual behavior. Although Bauls claim to value women over men, little is known about the individual views and experiences of Baul women. Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the everyday lives of Baul women. Knight demonstrates that Baul women respond to the conflicting expectations imposed on them in various ways, sometimes adopting and other times subverting local gendered norms to craft meaningful lives. More so than their male counterparts, Baul women feel encumbered by norms. But rather than seeing Baul women's normative behavior as indicative of their conformity to gendered roles (and, therefore, failures as Bauls), Knight argues that these women creatively draw on societal expectations to transcend their social limits and create new paths.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.12.2014
Zusatzinfo 17 illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 231 x 152 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-19-939684-1 / 0199396841
ISBN-13 978-0-19-939684-9 / 9780199396849
Zustand Neuware
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