From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780195081183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str.

Lindsey Harlan; Paul B. Courtright

Opis

Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.

Recenzje

This is a rich volume.... Each essay is solid and very readable.