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Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Seeking Bauls of Bengal

Openshaw, Jeanne

Hardcover

Series: University of Cambridge Oriental Publications, Book 60

AnthropologyHinduism

ISBN10: 0521811252
ISBN13: 9780521811255
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 25 2002
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Bauls have achieved fame as wandering minstrels and mystics in India and Bangladesh. They are recruited from Hindu and Muslim communities and renowned for their beautiful songs. Using fieldwork and oral and written texts, Jeanne Openshaw analyzes the rise of the Bauls to their present revered status, traversing from the conventional historical and textual approaches towards an ethnographic study of their world, where love and the body are valued and women extolled above men. Her approach is challenging and sympathetic to this spiritual and creative people.

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