Seeking Bauls of Bengal (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	University of Cambridge Oriental Publications
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Jeanne Openshaw
Dimensions:	236 x 159 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-81125-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-521-81125-2
Barcode:	9780521811255

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