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ISBN 13 : 9789381209387
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Essays on Indian Folk Life and Culture with Special Reference to Bengal written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195347137
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls written by June McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. The tantric/yogic strand focuses on ritual, meditation, and visualization as ways of experiencing the power of the goddess directly. The devotional or bhakti strand, which is the most popular form, involves the intense love and worship of a particular form of the goddess. McDaniel traces these strands through Bengali culture and explores how they are interwoven with each other as well as with other forms of Hinduism. She also discusses how these practices have been reinterpreted in the West, where goddess worship has gained the values of sexual freedom and psychological healing, but lost its emphases on devotion and asceticism. Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls takes the reader inside the lives of practicing Shaktas, including holy women, hymn singers, philosophers, visionaries, gurus, ascetics, healers, musicians, and businessmen, and offers vivid descriptions of their rituals, practices, and daily lives. Drawing on years of fieldwork and extensive research, McDaniel paints a rich, expansive portrait of this fascinating religious tradition.
Author : Lina Fruzzetti
Publisher : New Delhi : South Asian Publishers
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Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Kinship and Ritual in Bengal written by Lina Fruzzetti and published by New Delhi : South Asian Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Snow Wadley
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788180280160
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions written by Susan Snow Wadley and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Study Of Folk Traditions Provides A Critical Look At The Accepted, Largely High Caste Male-Authored Views Of Hinduism And Society In India.
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Total Pages : 1444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Indian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruno Nettl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824049461
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)
Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South Asia : the Indian subcontinent written by Bruno Nettl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Asim Roy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856701
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Islamic Syncretistic Tradition in Bengal written by Asim Roy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asim Roy argues that Islam in Bengal was not a corruption of the "real" Middle Eastern Islam, as nineteenth-century reformers claimed, but a valid historical religion developed in an area totally different from the Middle East. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Priyanka Basu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000960889
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Poet’s Song written by Priyanka Basu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel, in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. Thought to be a nearly extinct form, the book shows how the genre is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how like many other ‘folk’ practices in South and South-East Asia, the content and format of this genre has undergone vital changes thus raising questions of authenticity, patronage and cultural politics. She captures live performances of Kobigaan through ethnographies spread across borders — from village rituals to urban festivals, and from Bengali cinema to television and new media. While understanding Kobigaan from the practitioners’ points-of-view, this book also explores the crucial issues of gender, marginalization and representation that is true of any performance genre. Drawing on case studies, it underlines the issues of artistic agency, empowerment, cultural labour and heritage, ritual, authenticity, creative industries, media, gender, and identity politics. Part of the ‘South Asian History and Culture’ series, this book is a major intervention in South Asian folklore and performance studies. It also expands into the larger disciplines of literature, social and cultural movements in South Asia, ethnomusicology and the politics of performance.
Author : Srimati Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131730991X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema written by Srimati Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private spheres. Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition of tradition and culture regarding women in Bengali cinema. It argues the antithesis of women’s roles, particularly in terms of ideas of resistance, revolution, change, and autonomy, by suggesting they convey resistance to hegemonic structures, encouraging a re-envisioning of women’s positions within the familial-social matrix. Along with presenting a perception of culture as dynamic and evolving, the book discusses how some directors show that with this rupturing of the traditionally prohibitive, and a notion of unmaking and making in women, a traditional inclination is exposed to align women with ideas of absence, substitution, and disposability. The author goes on to show how selected auteurs in contemporary Bengali cinema break with certain traditional representations of women, gesturing towards a culture that is more liberating for women. Presenting the first full-length study of women’s changing roles over the last twenty years of Bengali cinema, this book will be a useful contribution for students and scholars of South Asian Culture, Film Studies and Gender Studies.
Author : University of Calcutta
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Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Calendar written by University of Calcutta and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Examination Papers".
Author : University of Calcutta
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Calendar written by University of Calcutta and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sankar Sen Gupta
Publisher : Calcutta : Indian Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Folklore and Folklife in India ; an Objective Study in Indian Perspective written by Sankar Sen Gupta and published by Calcutta : Indian Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Krishnendu Ray
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270118
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Curried Cultures written by Krishnendu Ray and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although South Asian cookery and gastronomy has transformed contemporary urban foodscape all over the world, social scientists have paid scant attention to this phenomenon. Curried Cultures–a wide-ranging collection of essays–explores the relationship between globalization and South Asia through food, covering the cuisine of the colonial period to the contemporary era, investigating its material and symbolic meanings. Curried Cultures challenges disciplinary boundaries in considering South Asian gastronomy by assuming a proximity to dishes and diets that is often missing when food is a lens to investigate other topics. The book’s established scholarly contributors examine food to comment on a range of cultural activities as they argue that the practice of cooking and eating matter as an important way of knowing the world and acting on it.
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Indian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A.R. Desai
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171541546
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Rural Sociology in India written by A.R. Desai and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1012 pages
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Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Reference India written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
