Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh

Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh

by LisaI.Knight (Author)

Synopsis

In this multi-sited ethnographic study, 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 28 Jul 2011

ISBN 10: 0199773548
ISBN 13: 9780199773541