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UNINA9910495885803321 |
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Autore |
Raheja Gloria Goodwin <1950-> |
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Titolo |
Listen to the heron's words : reimagining gender and kinship in North India / / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1994 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-91421-X |
0-585-10443-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Folk literature, Indic - India - Uttar Pradesh |
Folk literature, Indic - India - Rajasthan |
Women - India |
Sex role - India |
Folklore |
Anthropology |
Social Sciences |
Rajasthan (India) Social life and customs |
Uttar Pradesh (India) Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words-and women's expressive genres more generally-criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India.The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative |
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