From the margins of Hindu marriage : essay on gender religion and culture

By:

Harlan, Lindsey (ed.)

Contributor(s):

Courtright , Paul B. (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Oxford University Press; 1995Description: 250pISBN:

9780195081183

Subject(s):

Marriage-India

DDC classification:

306.81 FRO

Summary: Providing new perspectives on Hindu marriage in South Asian culture, the essays in this collections explore points at which the conceptual boundaries of marriage are crossed or transgressed. Rather than focus on ideal or normative expectations about marriage, the authors choose to examine those more revealing times at which such norms are tested or rejected. Drawing on folkstories, songs, and first-hand narrations of life stories that illuminate the marginal experience, these essays shed new light on Hindu widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and satí, as well as on the subversion of marriage by devotion to dieties and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience. Combining insights from anthropology, Indology, folklore, and the history of religions, this collection is an important contribution to the cross-cultural study of marriage and gender issues, and to our understanding of these facets of South Asian society and culture.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Providing new perspectives on Hindu marriage in South Asian culture, the essays in this collections explore points at which the conceptual boundaries of marriage are crossed or transgressed. Rather than focus on ideal or normative expectations about marriage, the authors choose to examine those more revealing times at which such norms are tested or rejected. Drawing on folkstories, songs, and first-hand narrations of life stories that illuminate the marginal experience, these essays shed new light on Hindu widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and satí, as well as on the subversion of marriage by devotion to dieties and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.

Combining insights from anthropology, Indology, folklore, and the history of religions, this collection is an important contribution to the cross-cultural study of marriage and gender issues, and to our understanding of these facets of South Asian society and culture.

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