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Listen to the Heron's Words:

Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
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University of California Press, 1994 - Social Science - 234 pages
In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words--and women's expressive genres more generally--criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India.
The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.
  

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This book affected me personally because it made me aware how unique are the Chinese gender and kinship practices. I imagine that this book may be a bit boring to a male reader. Read full review

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We only read exerpts. Tended to be vibrant and enriching given the subject matter. COURSE: GENEDER AND RELIGION IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE Read full review

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Contents

Gender Representation and
1
Sexuality Fertility and Erotic Imagination
30
Shifting
73
Redefining
121
Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic?
149
A Storytellers Story
164
Some Reflections on Narrative
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Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts
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Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words
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Index
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About the author (1994)

Gloria Goodwin Raheja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and author of The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village (1988). Ann Grodzins Gold is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is the author of Fruitful Journeys: The Ways of Rajasthani Pilgrims (California, 1988) and A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand (California, 1992).

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TitleListen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
AuthorGloria Goodwin Raheja
ContributorAnn Grodzins Gold
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 1994
ISBN0520083717, 9780520083714
Length234 pages
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