Life-as-Lived Today: Perpetual (Undesired) Liminality of the Half-widows of Kashmir

According to Victor Turner, all liminality must eventually dissolve, for it is a state of great intensity that cannot exist very long without some sort of structure to sta-bilize it. This paper takes his lead and attempts to describe the liminal status of those women, the whereabouts of whose husban...

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Main Author: Paul DSouza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2016-04-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.168126