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Costume

Performing Identities Through Dress

By: Pravina Shukla

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Costume

Performing Identities Through Dress

By: Pravina Shukla

A revealing look at how and why we dress up for events from historical reenactments to Halloween, with an “engaging writing style and rich illustrations” (Choice). What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings and enables the wearer to project a different self or special identity. In this fascinating book, Pravina Shukla offers richly detailed case studies from the United States, Brazil, and Sweden to show how individuals use costumes for social communication and to express facets of their personalities. “Revelatory . . . a wide-ranging book bringing attention to clothing as part of festivals and folk heritage events, pop culture conventions and dramatic performances.” —Nuvo

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Indiana University Press

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0253015812

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9780253015815

Folk Art

Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

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Folk Art

Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

Listen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction. What they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan. This book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.

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Indiana University Press

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0253067227

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9780253067227

The Grace of Four Moons

Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

By: Pravina Shukla

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The Grace of Four Moons

Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

By: Pravina Shukla

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.

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Indiana University Press

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0253021219

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9780253021212

Sacred Art

Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

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Sacred Art

Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

Sacred art flourishes today in northeastern Brazil, where European and African religious traditions have intersected for centuries. Professional artists create images of both the Catholic saints and the African gods of Candomblé to meet the needs of a vast market of believers and art collectors. Over the past decade, Henry Glassie and Pravina Shukla conducted intense research in the states of Bahia and Pernambuco, interviewing the artists at length, photographing their processes and products, attending Catholic and Candomblé services, and finally creating a comprehensive book, governed by a deep understanding of the artists themselves. Beginning with Edival Rosas, who carves monumental baroque statues for churches, and ending with Francisco Santos, who paints images of the gods for Candomblé terreiros, the book displays the diversity of Brazilian artistic techniques and religious interpretations. Glassie and Shukla enhance their findings with comparisons from art and religion in the United States, Nigeria, Portugal, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, and Japan and gesture toward an encompassing theology of power and beauty that brings unity into the spiritual art of the world.

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Indiana University Press

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0253032067

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9780253032065

Costume

Performing Identities Through Dress

By: Pravina Shukla

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The Grace of Four Moons

Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

By: Pravina Shukla

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Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India

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A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology

Upside Down, Inside Out

By: Pravina Rodrigues

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A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology

Upside Down, Inside Out

By: Pravina Rodrigues

A Śākta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out offers a Śākta thealogy of religions and a Śākta anti-method, method, and a-method for comparative theology. For Śāktas, the thread of religious diversity is part of the rich tapestry of cosmological, topographical, environmental, and bio-diversity, which is the Goddess’ collective (samaṣṭi) and individuated (vyaṣṭi) forms. Śākta religious diversity is "complex, layered, and paradoxical, allowing ontological similarities, ontological differences, and irreducibility." A Śākta thealogy of religious diversity transcends humans and the borders of religion, politics, society, and speciesism. New Books Network podcast on New Books in Indian Religions, a conversation between Raj Balkaran and author Pravina Rodrigues: https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-sakta-method-for-comparative-theology

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Lexington Books

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1666905062

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9781666905069

Sacred Art

Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

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Catholic Saints and Candomblé Gods in Modern Brazil

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Folk Art

Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian

By: Henry Glassie,Pravina Shukla

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Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian

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