"Real Bauls live under trees" : scholarly and popular imaginings of Bauls and the marginalization of Baul women -- : "I've done nothing wrong" : feminine respectability and Baul expectations -- Negotiating between paradigms of the good Baul and the good woman -- "Do not neglect this golden body of yours" : personal and social transformation through Baul songs -- Renouncing expectations
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index
