The grace of four moons dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India / [electronic resource] :
Pravina Shukla ; photographs by Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
- xi, 498 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
- Material culture .
- Material culture. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-490) and index.
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.
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--India.--India.--India.--India.
Clothing and dress Saris Wedding costume Dress accessories