Given to the Goddess
South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
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ISBN-13:
9780822357100
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
17.09.2014
Seiten:
296
Autor:
Lucinda Ramberg
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
234x157x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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 devadasis, or jogatis, 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.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1Part I. Gods1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 392. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71Part II. Gifts3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 1134. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142Part III. Trouble5. Kinship Trouble 1816. Troubling Kinship 213Notes 223Glossary 247Bibliography 251Index 270
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