Ramberg Given to the Goddess

South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7641-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramberg, Lucinda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Leben & Praxis, Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1

Part I. Gods

1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39

2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71

Part II. Gifts

3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113

4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the "Traffic" in Women 142

Part III. Trouble

5. Kinship Trouble 181

6. Troubling Kinship 213

Notes 223

Glossary 247

Bibliography 251

Index 270

Über Autor(innen)

Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.