TY - BOOK ID - 30941452 TI - Given to the goddess : South Indian devadasis and the sexuality of religion PY - 2014 SN - 9780822357100 0822357100 9780822357247 0822357240 0822376415 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Devadāsīs. KW - Yellamma (Hindu deity) KW - Sex KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A75 KW - Gender (Sex) KW - Human beings KW - Human sexuality KW - Sex (Gender) KW - Sexual behavior KW - Sexual practices KW - Sexuality KW - Sexology KW - Renuka (Hindu deity) KW - Hindu goddesses KW - Deva-dāsī KW - Deva-dāsīs KW - Devadāsī KW - Joginis KW - Mathammas KW - Uruttira kaṇikaiyar KW - Courtesans KW - Dancers KW - Religious aspects KW - Hinduism. KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Etnografie: Azië KW - Devadāsīs. KW - Yellamma (Hindu deity). KW - Devadāsīs KW - Religious aspects&delete& KW - Hinduism KW - Yellamma KW - Renuka KW - Ellamma UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30941452 AB -
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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