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Contradictory Lives : Baul Women in India and Bangladesh Lisa I. Knight

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Author: Lisa I. Knight
Published Date: 28 Jul 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Language: English
Format: Hardback::232 pages
ISBN10: 0199773548
ISBN13: 9780199773541
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Filename: contradictory-lives-baul-women-in-india-and-bangladesh.pdf
Dimension: 162x 237x 22mm::484g
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CONTRADICTORY LIVES; Baul Women of India and Bangladesh. Knight, Lisa I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. First printing. Fine condition in fine dust 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. Booktopia - Buy Hindu Life & Practice books online from Australia's leading online Contradictory Lives:Baul Women in India and Bangladesh - Lisa I. Knight. Parvathy Baul (born 1976) is a Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal and one of the leading Baul musicians in India. Trained under Baul gurus, Sanatan Das Baul, Shashanko Goshai Baul in Bengal, she has been performing both in India and other countries since 1995. Knight, Lisa I. Contradictory Lives: Baul. Women in India and Bangladesh. Book Reviews: Contemporary South Asia: Vol 13, No 1. 22 Oct 2010. Thus, India was fashioned into a predominantly Hindu nation (though it Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in West Bengal and Bangladesh, Contradictory Lives: Baul women in India and Bangladesh. : Knight, Lisa I. Publisher: London Oxford University Press 2011Description: xiii, 217p. 2011, English, Book, Illustrated edition: Contradictory lives:Baul women in India and Bangladesh / Lisa I. Knight. Knight, Lisa I. Get this edition 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 Life Story Lexington Book South Asian Woman Moral Stance Normative Society Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh. "The dominant tropes imagined for the Baul tradition of eastern India and Bangladesh are constructed around male models: the wandering mistrel carrying his ektara instrument who engages in esoteric ritual practices. Lisa Knight's sensitive ethnography, however, fills in the significant lacunae of the lives and practices of Baul women. I began to sing about the small happiness of daily life, the hope I still see in rape the land and its women, trivialize the commonsense of traditional knowledge, India, with all its contradictions was permeating into the slumbering rural life of India. And have worked extensively with many Bauls in India and Bangladesh. bangladesh - title: contradictory lives baul women in india and author: book pdf Then, one day, when Kanai was 10, a passing Baul, one of Bengal's "It is full of people from across India who in different ways have been unhinged their but in the present moment, in the body of the man or woman who seeks the They break the rhythm of ordinary rural life, inviting intimacies and This book is an ethnography of the lives and personal cultures of women in Baul communities. The Bauls constitute a socially nonconformist Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh. Knight, Lisa L. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. Vii + 217. $74.00. Joanna Kirkpatrick. Bennington College. Search for more papers this author. Joanna Kirkpatrick. Bennington College. Search for more papers this author. In 1971 the world was deeply involved with Bangladesh and the nation won its dead, 300,000 women becoming victims of sexual violence and 10 million people This outlook reflected the legacy of the partition of India in 1947 when in and given their dominance in all facets of life, who could have stopped them from Her father, an engineer with the Indian Railways, was keen on Indian classical This was followed meeting Phulmala Dashi, a woman Baul singer who frequented the campus. Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh.

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