The grace of four moons : dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India / Pravina Shukla ; photographs by Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie.
"In this illustrated study, Pravina Shukla documents the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, India, she describes the full process of body art, from the preparation of raw materials and manufacture of objects, through their sale a...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Introduction
- 1. Body Art in Banaras
- 2. Getting Ready
- 3. Gaze, Sacred and Secular
- Pt. 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
- Pt. 3. Personal Adornment
- 10. Nina Khanchandani
- 11. Neelam Chaturvedi
- 12. Mukta Tripathi
- Pt. 4. Body Art in the Lifecycle
- 13. After the Wedding
- 14. Before the Wedding
- 15. The Wedding
- Pt. 5. Conclusion
- 16. The Study of Body Art.