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Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion / Lucinda Ramberg.
LIBRA BL1237.58.D48 R3635 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramberg, Lucinda, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Devadāsīs.
- Yellamma (Hindu deity).
- Yellamma.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research into an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Gods, gifts, trouble
- Yellamma and her sisters : kinship among goddesses and others
- Yellamma, her wives, and the question of religion
- Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma
- The giving of daughters : sexual economy, sexual agency, and the "traffic" in women
- Kinship trouble
- Troubling kinship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357100
- 0822357100
- 9780822357247
- 0822357240
- OCLC:
- 873985183
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