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Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion / Lucinda Ramberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramberg, Lucinda, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yellamma (Hindu deity).
- Yellamma.
- Devadāsīs.
- Sex--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Sex.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Based on two years of ethnographic research, this book considers an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to a goddess. Called <I>devadasis</I>, or <I>jogatis</I>, those dedicated become female and male women who conduct the rites of the goddess outside the walls of her main temple and transact in sex outside the bounds of conjugal matrimony.</div>
- Contents:
- Introduction: gods, gifts, trouble
- Yellamma and her sisters
- Yellamma, her wives, and the question of religion
- Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma
- Sexual economy, sexual agency, and the "traffic" in women
- Kinship trouble
- Troubling kinship.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357247
- 0822357240
- 9780822376415
- 0822376415
- OCLC:
- 1141518053
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