Contradictory lives
Subtitle: Baul women in India and Bangladesh
By: Lisa I. Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780199773541
Subjects: Religious life and customs; Bauls; Religious life; Baul women; Identity (Psychology)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Real Bauls live under trees" : scholarly and popular imaginings of Bauls and the marginalization of Baul women; title: : "I've done nothing wrong" : feminine respectability and Baul expectations; title: Negotiating between paradigms of the good Baul and the good woman; title: "Do not neglect this golden body of yours" : personal and social transformation through Baul songs; title: Renouncing expectations.