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Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion
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ISBN: 9780822357100 0822357100 9780822357247 0822357240 0822376415 Year: 2014 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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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.
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