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Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion /
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 on an ongoing South Indian practice of dedication in which girls, and sometimes boys, are married to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.