Book
The gift of a virgin: women, marriage, and ritual in a Bengali society
Rutgers University Press • New Brunswick, N.j. • Published In 1982 • Pages:
By: Fruzzetti, Lina M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a rich study of Bengali marriage from the women's point of view. Fruzzetti makes a complex argument regarding the importance of marriage in Bengali social system. According to Fruzzetti, women, marriage and its associated rituals are the pivot on which caste and lineage systems turn. She discusses a core set of rituals (STRIACAR) performed by women during marriage ceremony and afterwards in the home on a regular basis. She argues that the symbolism of these rituals is a key to understanding the role and status of women in Bengali society and Bengali kinship and caste system.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Household
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bengali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1967-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vishnupur, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lina M. Fruzzetti
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-169) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 81015337
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis