The Grace of Four Moons - Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India (Paperback)

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 the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.

General

Imprint:	Indiana University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2015
Authors:	Pravina Shukla
Dimensions:	241 x 178 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	528
ISBN-13:	978-0-253-02113-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-253-02113-8
Barcode:	9780253021137

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