From the Margins of Hindu Marriage : Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture - Lindsey Harlan

From the Margins of Hindu Marriage

Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture

By: Lindsey Harlan (Editor), Paul B. Courtright (Editor)

Hardcover | 1 June 1997

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Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.
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"The essays are substantial, illuminating and well-written, and as a whole, the book appears a milestone in the study of Indian marriage."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies "The essays are substantial, illuminating and well-written, and as a whole, the book appears a milestone in the study of Indian marriage."--The Journal of Indo-European Studies

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