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020 _a9780195081176
040 _cCUS
082 _a306.810954
_bHAR/F
245 0 _aFrom the margins of hindu marriage: essay on gender, religion, and culture/
_cedited by Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright
260 _aNew York:
_bOxford University Press,
_c1995.
300 _axii, 250 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
505 _a"Crying when she's born, and crying when she goes away": marriage and the idiom of the gift in Pahansu song performance / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- The dilemmas of domesticity: possession and devotional experience among urban Smarta women / Mary E. Hancock -- No longer a wife: widows in rural north India / Susan S. Wadley -- The "Jungli Rani" and other troubled wives in Rajasthani oral traditions / Ann Grodzins Gold -- The effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): caste, marriage, and divorce in Bengali culture / Ralph W. Nicholas -- Begetting on margin: adultery and surrogate pseudomarriage in Hinduism / Wendy Doniger -- Sati, sacrifice, and marriage: the modernity of tradition / Paul B. Courtright -- Abandoning shame: Mira and the margins of marriage / Lindsey Harlan.
650 _aMarriage
650 _aHinduism
650 _aManners and customs
700 _aHarlan, Lindsey, ed.
700 _aCourtright, Paul B., ed.
942 _cWB16