The grace of four moons [electronic resource] : dress, adornme nt, and the art of the body in modern India / Pravina Shukla ; photo graphs by Pravina Shukla and Henry Glassie.
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TextSeries: Material culture | Material culture | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 498 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmSubject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: 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 -- Nin a Khanchandani -- Neelam Chaturvedi -- Mukta Tripathi -- After the wedd ing -- Before the wedding -- The wedding -- The study of body art.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
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