The grace of four moons : dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material culture (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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| Physical Description: | xi, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-490) and index. |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2008]
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| ISBN: | 9780253349118 (cloth) 0253349117 (cloth) |
Table of Contents:
- 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.