Promising Rituals: Gender and Performativity in Eastern India - Hardcover

Hauser, Beatrix

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415625858 ISBN 13: 9780415625852

Verlag: Routledge India, 2012

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Drawn from intensive ethnographic fieldwork in southern Orissa, in eastern India, the book shows how the performance of rituals influences the understanding that Hindu women form of their own selves, their sense of femininity, identity as well as their role and position in the lived-in world, and vice versa.

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Beatrix Hauser is Adjunct Associate Professor (Privatdozentin), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She holds a PhD and a Habilitation (Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification) in social anthropology. Her research interests lie in anthropology of the body, anthropology of religion, anthropology of theatre and performance, visual anthropology, transculturality and gender. She has published numerous articles in various international journals and edited volumes, and is the author of Mit irdischem Schaudern und göttlicher Fügung: Bengalische Erzähler und ihre Bildvorführungen [With Earthly Dread and Divine Decree: Bengali Storytellers and their Scroll Performances] (1998), in German; and Yoga Traveling: Conceptualizing Body and Self in Transcultural Perspective (edited volume, forthcoming).

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415625858
• ISBN 13: 9780415625852
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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