by Lindsey Harlan (Editor), Lindsey Harlan (Editor)
This is a collection of previously unpublished essays exploring the meanings of marriage in South Asian Hindu culture: its practices, assumption, sensibilities and discontents. The authors use new understandings of gender to study local practices, attitudes, folk narratives, ritual symbols, and religious sensibilities as they bear on religion, gender, and social life in the Hindu world.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 270
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 07 Mar 1996
ISBN 10: 0195081188
ISBN 13: 9780195081183