Title: Contradictory lives
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.
Subjects: Religious life and customs, Bauls, Religious life, Baul women, Identity (Psychology), Women, religious life, Women, india, Women, bangladesh, Religious aspects
Places: West Bengal (India), India, Bangladesh, West Bengal