<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xml:lang="fr"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">episciences.org</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="issn" specific-use="electronic">2557-9959</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Sociétés plurielles</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>SOCIETES-PLURIELLES</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn specific-use="electronic">2557-9959</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Presses de l’Inalco</publisher-name><publisher-loc>                                            Paris, France                                        <email>support@episciences.org</email>                    <uri>https://www.episciences.org</uri>                    <uri>https://societes-plurielles.episciences.org</uri>                </publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.46298/societes-plurielles.2020.6226</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="hal">hal-02506980</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/6226</article-id><article-catgories><series-text content-type="text">Articles</series-text></article-catgories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Beyond the Veil. A Comparative Study between France and India</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="fr"><trans-title>Le ghunghat, ethnographie d’un voile comme langage social. Corps et société en Inde du Nord</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Lécuyer</surname><given-names>Laurence</given-names></name><institution-wrap><institution><institution_name>Centre d'Etudes en Sciences Sociales sur les Mondes Africains, Américains et Asiatiques</institution_name></institution></institution-wrap></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>Varia</volume><uri specific-use="for-review">http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/6226/pdf</uri><self-uri>http://societes-plurielles.episciences.org/6226</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The ghunghat is a veiling practice of North India. Its peculiarity holds in the fact that it is not linked to a religion. It reveals the social and family organisation in India, is tightly linked with marriage practices and mirrors the representations of the self and of the body. An anthropological analysis of this practice reveals its multiple dimensions, especially a social, aesthetic and sacred dimension. A comparative study between the way the veil is conceived both in India and in France will allow to rethink the veil beyond the religious and political dimensions in which it is crystalized in the French context.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="fr"><p>Le ghunghat est un voile du Nord de l’Inde. Il a pour particularité d’être non confessionnel. Son lien est étroit avec les systèmes de parenté, d’alliance, d’organisation familiale d’Inde du Nord, et reflète les systèmes de représentations et de constructions du corps. Une analyse anthropologique de ce voile fait ressortir ses dimensions sociales, esthétiques, et son lien au sacré. Le voile en tant qu’objet polysémique doit être repensé selon une perspective comparative qui permet de sortir des cristallisations autour des seules dimensions religieuses et politiques dans lesquelles le voile a été enfermé dans le contexte socio-politique français.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author" xml:lang="fr"><kwd>veil</kwd><kwd>body</kwd><kwd>gender</kwd><kwd>social organization</kwd><kwd>India</kwd><kwd>status</kwd><kwd>anthropology of clothing</kwd><kwd>voile</kwd><kwd>corps</kwd><kwd>genre</kwd><kwd>organisation familiale</kwd><kwd>Inde</kwd><kwd>statuts</kwd><kwd>anthropologie vestimentaire</kwd><kwd>[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences</kwd></kwd-group><permissions><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"/></permissions><counts><page-count count="37"/></counts></article-meta></front><body/></article>