Grace of Four Moons - Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

Informationen zum Autor Pravina Shukla Klappentext Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is author of Costume: Performing Identities through Dress (IUP, 2015) and editor (with Ray Cashman and Tom Mould) of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives (IUP, 2011). Zusammenfassung Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Part 1. Introduction 1. Body Art in Banaras 2. Getting Ready 3. Gaze, Sacred and Secular Part 2. Production and Commerce 4. Shopping for Clothes 5. Weaving Saris 6. Making Jewelry 7. Kanhaiya Lal 8. Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali 9. Assembling Bangle Sets Part 3. Personal Adornment 10. Nina Khanchandani 11. Neelam Chaturvedi 12. Mukta Tripathi Part 4. Body Art in the Lifecycle 13. After the Wedding 14. Before the Wedding 15. The Wedding Part 5. Conclusion 16. The Study of Body Art Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Assistant Professor Pravina (Indiana Unive Shukla, Pravina Shukla, Shukla Pravina
• Assisted by: Henry Glassie (Photographs), Pravina Shukla (Photographs), Photographs by Pravina Shukla and Henry (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780253021137
• ISBN: 978-0-253-02113-7
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Material Culture; Material Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Ancient knowledge, ancient cultures; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)