عنوان

Seeking the Image of 'Unmarked' Sikh Women:

Number

LA124774

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Seeking the Image of 'Unmarked' Sikh Women:

General Material Designation

[Article]

Other Title Information

Text, Sacred Stitches, Turban

First Statement of Responsibility

Doris R. Jakobsh

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

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 connected to the male Sikh body. This study locates Sikh women within a number of these early ritual and textual ordinances while also exploring how Sikh female religio-cultural materiality is contradistinct to the normative Khalsa male body. The production of phulkaris, a form of embroidered head covering (but having other uses as well) was historically associated with Sikh women and are here examined as alternate forms of religious belonging, ritual production and devotion. This study concludes with an examination of how the turban, for a small number of diasporic Sikh women, can be understood both as a rejection of traditional Sikh female ideals, as well as a novel form of Sikh women's identity construction that is closely aligned with Sikh masculine ideals. 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 connected to the male Sikh body. This study locates Sikh women within a number of these early ritual and textual ordinances while also exploring how Sikh female religio-cultural materiality is contradistinct to the normative Khalsa male body. The production of phulkaris, a form of embroidered head covering (but having other uses as well) was historically associated with Sikh women and are here examined as alternate forms of religious belonging, ritual production and devotion. This study concludes with an examination of how the turban, for a small number of diasporic Sikh women, can be understood both as a rejection of traditional Sikh female ideals, as well as a novel form of Sikh women's identity construction that is closely aligned with Sikh masculine ideals.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

35-51

Title

Religion and Gender

Volume Number

5/1

International Standard Serial Number

1878-5417

Subject Term

materiality

Subject Term

phulkaris

Subject Term

religious identity construction

Subject Term

Sikhism/Sikhs and gender

Subject Term

Sikhism/Sikhs and women

Subject Term

turbans

Doris R. Jakobsh

Call Number

10.18352/rg.10085

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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