Contradictory lives

Description:

In this multi-sited ethnographic study, Knight explores the everyday lives of women of the Baul tradition of musical mystics in India and Bangladesh. She demonstrates that Baul women construct a meaningful life as they navigate between conflicting expectations of Bauls to be carefree and of women to be modest.

subjects: Religious life and customs,  Bauls,  Religious life,  Baul women,  Identity (Psychology),  Women, religious life,  Women, india,  Women, bangladesh,  Religious aspects

Places: West Bengal (India),  India,  Bangladesh,  West Bengal