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| Author | : Gloria Goodwin Raheja |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1994-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520083717 |
In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words—and women's expressive genres more generally—criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India. The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.
| Author | : Justin Derry |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2014-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1443869899 |
The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts and Narratives is an inter-disciplinary book problematizing the slippery notion of 'Everyday Life'. Contributing to a tradition of 20th century scholarly work focusing on 'Everyday Life', this book specifically attends to the multiple ways that the quotidian aspects of our day-to-day existence become knotted into situated narratives and concepts. In their depth and breadth, the chapters compiled here all work with an understanding of everyday life that is i...
| Author | : ANN G. GOLD |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 1994 |
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| Author | : Sarma, Visnu |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 505 |
| Release | : 2006-08-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0140455663 |
First recorded 1500 years ago, but taking its origins from a far earlier oral tradition, the Pancatantra is ascribed by legend to the celebrated, half-mythical teacher Visnu Sarma. Asked by a great king to awaken the dulled intelligence of his three idle sons, the aging Sarma is said to have composed the great work as a series of entertaining and edifying fables narrated by a wide range of humans and animals, and together intended to provide the young princes with vital guidance for life. Since first leaving India before AD 570, the Pancatantra has been widely translated and has influenced a cast number of works in India, the Arab world and Europe, including the Arabian Nights, the Canterbury Tales and the Fables of La Fontaine. Enduring and profound, it is among the earliest and most popular of all books of fables.
| Author | : Mary Hancock |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 267 |
| Release | : 2019-05-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0429982666 |
Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords,
| Author | : John Burdick |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1136044221 |
The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, John Burdick challenges this view by revealing the many-layered reality of popular black consciousness and identity in an arena that is usually overlooked: that of popular Christianity.Blessed Anastacia describes how popular Christianity confronts everyday racism and contributes to the formation of racial identity. The author concludes that if organizers of the black consciousness movement were to recognize the profound racial meaning inherent in this area of popular religiosity, they might be more successful in bridging the gap with its poor and working-class constituency.
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Folklore |
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| Author | : Alison Arnold |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1126 |
| Release | : 2017-09-25 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1351544381 |
In this volume, sixty-eight of the world's leading authorities explore and describe the wide range of musics of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, Nepal and Afghanistan. Important information about history, religion, dance, theater, the visual arts and philosophy as well as their relationship to music is highlighted in seventy-six in-depth articles.
| Author | : Marcus Baram |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2014-11-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1250012791 |
Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg" provide a time capsule for a decade marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and racism. While he was exalted by his devoted fans as the "black Bob Dylan" (a term he hated) and widely sampled by the likes of Kanye West, Prince, Common, and Elvis Costello, he never really achieved mainstream success. Yet he maintained a cult following throughout his life, even as he grappled with the personal demons that fueled so many of his lyrics. Scott-Heron performed and occasionally recorded well into his later years, until eventually succumbing to his life-long struggle with addiction. He passed away in 2011, the end to what had become a hermit-like existence. In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
| Author | : Arti Dhand |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2009-01-08 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780791471401 |
Explores ideas on women and sexuality presented in the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
