The Grace of Four Moons : Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India /

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Because 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 Gr...

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Auteur principal: Shukla, Pravina, 1968-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Wedding costume.
Saris.
Dress accessories.
Clothing and dress.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
main garments.
clothing.
Vêtements.
Vêtements > Accessoires > Inde.
Costume nuptial > Inde.
Saris > Inde.
Clothing
Dress accessories > India.
Wedding costume > India.
Saris > India.
Clothing and dress > India.
India.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Body art in Banaras
  • Getting ready
  • Gaze, sacred and secular
  • Shopping for clothes
  • Weaving saris
  • Making jewelry
  • Kanhaiya Lal
  • Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali
  • Assembling bangle sets
  • Nina Khanchandani
  • Neelam Chaturvedi
  • Mukta Tripathi
  • After the wedding
  • Before the wedding
  • The wedding
  • The study of body art.

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