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Eunuchs : India's third gender / by Michael Yorke.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Eunuchs--India.
- Eunuchs.
- Eunuchs--Religious life--India.
- Religious life.
- Gay couples.
- Male prostitution.
- India.
- Religious life--Hinduism.
- Male prostitution--India.
- Gay couples--India.
- India--Religious life and customs.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (49 min.) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1991.
- Language Note:
- English, and some Hindi, with some English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In a world of implicit of obedience to the authority of the guru, the parent and the head of the family. It is a close society where castration guaranties permanent loyalty by detaching the new disciple from the outside world in return the eunuch is given permanent security Sharada Bai has nurtured them through their personal crises of being neither male nor female and guided them in the ways of the third gender.
- Credits:
- Narrator, Aruna Har Prasad.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 3, 2012).
- Filmed in Rajkot, India, Rajasthan, India, and Bombay, India.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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