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Given to the Goddess
South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
Taschenbuch von Lucinda Ramberg
Sprache: Englisch

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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 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. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations-between and among humans and deities-that exceed such categories.
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 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. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations-between and among humans and deities-that exceed such categories.
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Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 298
ISBN-13: 9780822357247
ISBN-10: 0822357240
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ramberg, Lucinda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Lucinda Ramberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2014
Gewicht: 0,435 kg
preigu-id: 105362973
Über den Autor
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 298
ISBN-13: 9780822357247
ISBN-10: 0822357240
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ramberg, Lucinda
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Lucinda Ramberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2014
Gewicht: 0,435 kg
preigu-id: 105362973
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