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From the margins of Hindu marriage : essays on gender, religion, and culture

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From the margins of Hindu marriage : essays on gender, religion, and culture / edited by Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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xii, 250 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Contents

"Crying when she's born, and crying when she goes away": marriage and the idiom of the gift in Pahansu song performance / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- The dilemmas of domesticity: possession and devotional experience among urban Smarta women / Mary E. Hancock -- No longer a wife: windows in rural north India / Susan S. Wadley -- The "Jungli Rani" and other troubled wives in Rajasthani oral traditions / Ann Grodzins Gold -- The effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): caste, marriage, and divorce in Bengali culture / Ralph W. Nicholas --
Begetting on margin: adultery and surrogate pseudomarriage in Hinduism / Wendy Doniger -- Sati, sacrifice, and marriage: the modernity of tradition / Paul B. Courtright -- Abandoning shame: Mira and the margins of marriage / Lindsey Harlan.

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JFE 95-11090

ISBN

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93051040

OCLC

29668943

Title

From the margins of Hindu marriage : essays on gender, religion, and culture / edited by Lindsey Harlan, Paul B. Courtright.

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.

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Hinduism Marriage

India

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Harlan, Lindsey.

Courtright, Paul B.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-11090