Seeking the Image of ‘Unmarked’ Sikh Women: Text, Sacred Stitches, Turban
With the inauguration of the Khalsa in 1699 by the tenth guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, a new understanding of ‘being Sikh’ was put in place. In examining the earliest prescriptive texts of the Khalsa, manifestations of Sikh religio-cultural identity and visual distinctiveness were deeply con...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2015]
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| In: |
Religion & gender
Year: 2015, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-51 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sikhs
/ Woman
/ Gender-specific role
/ Headgear
/ Ritual
/ History 1700-2015
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism NBE Anthropology TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
Sikhs and gender / Sikhism
B Turbans B Materiality B phulkaris B Sikhism / Sikhs and women B religious identity construction |
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