Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

'Bauls' have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from both Hindu and Muslim communities and are renowned for their beautiful and often enigmatic songs. Despite their iconic status as representatives of the spiritual East, and although they have been the subject of a number of studies, systematic research with Bauls themselves has been neglected. Jeanne Openshaw's book is fresh, not only in analysing the rise of the Bauls to their present revered status, but in the depth of its ethnographic research and its reference to the lives of composers and singers as a context for their songs. The author uses her fieldwork, and oral and manuscript materials, to lead the reader from the conventional historical and textual approaches towards a world defined by people called 'Baul', where the human body and love are primary and where women may be extolled above men.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-07-25
Mått:159 x 236 x 26 mm
Vikt:620 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521811255
Utmärkelser:Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Award by Pascimbanga Bangla Akademi (Government of West Bengal, India)  2008

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jeanne Openshaw is lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Recensioner i media

'Openshaw's excellent ethnographic and linguistic skills have enabled her to capture culture in the making. Her awareness of diverse bodies of literature makes her alert to nuances of meaning … this superb ethnography has implications for debates in many other fields and it is to be hoped that it will become known beyond the self-contained world of south Asian studies. It adds to the growing literature undermining 'the world religions' model of human religio-cultural activity. It is relevant to debates on cultural ideas about the body, and on the nature of the 'self'. And as for Orientalist and Indian nationality ideas about the 'spiritual east' here is have a classic example of indigenous Indian sceptical materialism.' Contemporary South Asia

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Background: Literature on 'Bauls' and 'Baul-songs': 1. 'What's in a name?' The advent of 'the Baul'; 2. The making of 'the Bauls': histories, themes, 'Baul-songs; Part II. In Search of 'Bauls': 3. Fieldwork in Rarh; 4. Fieldwork in Bagri; Part III. Received Classifications: 5. Two shores, two refuges: householder and renouncer; 6. Evading the two shores: the guru; Part IV. Reworking the Classifications: 7. Affect: love and women; 8. Theory: images the 'I' and bartaman; Part V. Practice and Talking about Practice: 9. Practice (sadhana); 10. Four moons practice and talking about practice (hari-katha); Conclusion.