Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion /
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.