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