The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India (Material Culture)

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ISBN-10:

0253349117

ISBN-13:

9780253349118

Author(s): Shukla, Pravina
Edition: First Edition
Released: Jan 17, 2008
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Related ISBN: 9780253021137

Description:

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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