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12%OFFPravina Shukla - The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India - 9780253021137 - V9780253021137
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The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

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Description for The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India Paperback. Originally published in hardcover in 2008 by Indiana University Press. Series: Material Culture. Num Pages: 528 pages, 49 b&w photos, 25 color photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6147 x 4522 x 30. Weight in Grams: 885.

Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Series
Material Culture
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253021137
SKU
V9780253021137
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About Pravina Shukla
Pravina Shukla is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She is author of Costume: Performing Identities through Dress (IUP, 2015) and editor (with Ray Cashman and Tom Mould) of The Individual and Tradition: Folkloristic Perspectives (IUP, 2011).

Reviews for The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India
In this unique and fascinating volume, the author calls the realm of her concern 'body art,' which is intended to denote all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Using rich firsthand interviews and information from modern India, folklorist Shukla (Indiana Univ.) traces the art of the body through the production of saris, bangles, and other goods and commerce and ... Read more

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