From the margins of Hindu marriage, essays on gender, religion, and culture, edited by Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright
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From the margins of Hindu marriage, essays on gender, religion, and culture, edited by Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index
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illustrations
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non fiction
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From the margins of Hindu marriage
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edited by Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright
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essays on gender, religion, and culture
Table of contents
Contents: "Crying when she's born, and crying when she goes away": marriage and the idiom of the gift in Pahansu song performance / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- The dilemmas of domesticity: possession and devotional experience among urban Smarta women / Mary E. Hancock -- No longer a wife: windows in rural north India / Susan S. Wadley -- The "Jungli Rani" and other troubled wives in Rajasthani oral traditions / Ann Grodzins Gold -- The effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): caste, marriage, and divorce in Bengali culture / Ralph W. Nicholas --Contents: Begetting on margin: adultery and surrogate pseudomarriage in Hinduism / Wendy Doniger -- Sati, sacrifice, and marriage: the modernity of tradition / Paul B. Courtright -- Abandoning shame: Mira and the margins of marriage / Lindsey Harlan
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