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OverviewBecause clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art-understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pravina Shukla , Pravina Shukla , Henry GlassiePublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.885kg ISBN: 9780253021137ISBN 10: 0253021138 Pages: 528 Publication Date: 16 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part 1. Introduction 1. Body Art in Banaras 2. Getting Ready 3. Gaze, Sacred and Secular Part 2. Production and Commerce 4. Shopping for Clothes 5. Weaving Saris 6. Making Jewelry 7. Kanhaiya Lal 8. Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali 9. Assembling Bangle Sets Part 3. Personal Adornment 10. Nina Khanchandani 11. Neelam Chaturvedi 12. Mukta Tripathi Part 4. Body Art in the Lifecycle 13. After the Wedding 14. Before the Wedding 15. The Wedding Part 5. Conclusion 16. The Study of Body Art Glossary Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe Grace of Four Moons provides a wealth of information about clothing and jewelry as an outlet for women seeking freedom of expression in India, while staying with a traditional framework. India Currents Magazine In this unique and fascinating volume, the author calls the realm of her concern 'body art, ' which is intended to denote all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Using rich firsthand interviews and information from modern India, folklorist Shukla (Indiana Univ.) traces the art of the body through the production of saris, bangles, and other goods and commerce and shopping, both of which are the arena of men. From this point, the author interviews individual women on personal adornment and finishes her study with a discussion of body art in the life cycle, with particular reference to weddings. For folklorists and cultural anthropologists, this is a treasure trove of information. For students of religion, it provides the material reference to the system of beliefs. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.Choice, September 2008 Author InformationPravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is author of Costume: Performing Identities through Dress (IUP, 2015) and editor (with Ray Cashman and Tom Mould) of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives (IUP, 2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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