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The grace of four moons: dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India

Pravina Shukla
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Part 1. Introduction
    • 1. Body Art in Banaras (page 3)
    • 2. Getting Ready (page 19)
    • 3. Gaze, Sacred and Secular (page 26)
  • Part 2. Production and Commerce
    • 4. Shopping for Clothes (page 59)
    • 5. Weaving Saris (page 92)
    • 6. Making Jewelry (page 113)
    • 7. Kanhaiya Lal (page 136)
    • 8. Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali (page 167)
    • 9. Assembling Bangle Sets (page 184)
  • Part 3. Personal Adornment
    • 10. Nina Khanchandani (page 221)
    • 11. Neelam Chaturvedi (page 239)
    • 12. Mukta Tripathi (page 263)
  • Part 4. Body Art in the Lifecycle
    • 13. After the Wedding (page 305)
    • 14. Before the Wedding (page 327)
    • 15. The Wedding (page 344)
  • Part 5. Conclusion
    • 16. The Study of Body Art (page 383)
  • Glossary (page 431)
  • Notes (page 433)
  • Bibliography (page 471)
  • Index (page 491)
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Published: c2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780253021212 (ebook)
  • 9780253021137 (paper)
  • 9780253349118 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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