Listen to the Heron's Words
Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
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 perspe…
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Weitere Autoren: Gold, Ann Grodzins
- ISBN: 978-0-520-08371-4
- EAN: 9780520083714
- Produktnummer: 1797825
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.2 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Gloria Goodwin Raheja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and author of The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village (1988). Ann Grodzins Gold is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is the author of Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (California, 1988) and A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand (California, 1992).
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