03134oam 2200649I 450 991049588580332120230207213203.00-520-91421-X0-585-10443-310.1525/9780520914216(CKB)111000211184442(SSID)ssj0000192925(PQKBManifestationID)12023828(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192925(PQKBWorkID)10218227(PQKB)10059942(DE-B1597)649299(DE-B1597)9780520914216(EXLCZ)9911100021118444220160829d1994 uy 0engurun#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierListen to the heron's words reimagining gender and kinship in North India /Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins GoldBerkeley :University of California Press,1994.1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) illustrations, mapBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-08371-7 0-520-08370-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.Folk literature, IndicIndiaUttar PradeshFolk literature, IndicIndiaRajasthanWomenIndiaFolkloreSex roleIndiaFolkloreHILCCAnthropologyHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCRajasthan (India)Social life and customsUttar Pradesh (India)Social life and customsFolk literature, IndicFolk literature, IndicIndiaWomenSex roleFolkloreAnthropologySocial Sciences398.2/0954/2Raheja Gloria Goodwin1950-1232829Gold Ann Grodzins1946-PQKBBOOK9910495885803321Listen to the heron's words2862680UNINA