| Description |
xii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index. |
| 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 -- |
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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. |
| Subject |
Marriage -- India.
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Marriage. |
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India. |
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Hinduism -- India.
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Hinduism. |
| Indexed Term |
Hinduism Marriage |
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India |
| Subject |
Marriage. |
| Added Author |
Harlan, Lindsey.
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Courtright, Paul B.
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| ISBN |
019508117X cl alkaline paper |
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0195081188 paperback alkaline paper |
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