Book Description
Combining over 1,000 brilliantly colored photographs, videos, music, and text, this CD-ROM documents a distinctive folk art of urban Bangladesh. The owners of rickshas (conventionally known as "rickshaws" in English) personalize their vehicles with elaborate paintings that incorporate geometric motifs, drawings of animals, mythic and religious themes, and pictures of movie stars. Ricksha art is an expression of the fondest desires in men's hearts - for wealth, sex, power, one's village home, religious blessings, and consumer goods. Joanna Kirkpatrick has photographed these vehicles for more than 20 years, cataloging styles and motifs. Her study becomes a window on Bangladesh culture and religion, as she examines the questions posed by pictorial representation in a Muslim society. Thanks to Transports of Delight, general audiences interested in South Asian folk art and aficionados of pedicabs around the world will join scholars and students of Bangladesh on an enjoyable and informative journey. System requirements: PC system with display set for 16 bit color at 800x600 resolution, 4x or better CD-ROM drive, Apple QuickTime 4 or better, Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher. Video segments require Pentium II Processor.

About the Author
Joanna Kirkpatrick retired as Professor of Anthropology from Bennington College, where she taught for more than 25 years. The author of The Sociology of an Indiana Hospital Ward, she has conducted fieldwork in South Asia on folk art, popular culture, and medical anthropology.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Combining over 1000 brilliantly-colored photographs, videos, music, and text, Transports of Delight documents a distinctive folk art of urban Bangladesh and explores the place of visual representation in a Muslim society. General audiences interested in South Asian art and aficionados of pedicabs around the world will join scholars and students on an enjoyable and informative journey.