Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India. (book reviews)

Listen to the Heron's Words not only offers elegant ethnographic descriptions and comprehensive analyses of women's speech genres in North India but also illustrates how South Asian oral tradition transcends cultural authority and transforms into a medium of resistance. Motivated by a feminist desire to counter colonial and ethnographic representations of female submissiveness and passivity in the face of male dominance, the authors uncover subversive and critical messages in North Indian women's performances.

Drawing on research conducted in rural Rajasthan (Gold) and Uttar Pradesh ...

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