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Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India, and suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman -- and of the role of women in Indian religion and society.
Devadāsīs --- Deva-dāsī --- Deva-dāsīs --- Devadāsī --- Joginis --- Mathammas --- Uruttira kaṇikaiyar --- Courtesans --- Dancers --- Tamil Nadu (India) --- Religious life and customs. --- Devad�as�is --- Devadasis
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Devadāsīs. --- Yellamma (Hindu deity) --- Sex --- #SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Renuka (Hindu deity) --- Hindu goddesses --- Deva-dāsī --- Deva-dāsīs --- Devadāsī --- Joginis --- Mathammas --- Uruttira kaṇikaiyar --- Courtesans --- Dancers --- Religious aspects --- Hinduism. --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Azië --- Devadāsīs. --- Yellamma (Hindu deity). --- Devadāsīs --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Hinduism --- Yellamma --- Renuka --- Ellamma
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Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a 1947 law that criminalized their lifestyles, the women in devadasis communities contend with severe social stigma and economic and cultural disenfranchisement. Adroitly combining ethnographic fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji provides a comprehensive
Dance --- Devadāsīs --- Devadāsīs --- Prostitution --- Social change --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Deva-dāsī --- Deva-dāsīs --- Devadāsī --- Joginis --- Mathammas --- Uruttira kaṇikaiyar --- Courtesans --- Dancers --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Street prostitution --- Sex work --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- Dances --- Dancing --- Amusements --- Performing arts --- Balls (Parties) --- Eurythmics --- courtesan, india, sex work, prostitution, sexuality, education, escort, demi monde, class, devadasis, stigma, criminalization, modernity, colonialism, reform, laws, ethnography, women, gender, marginalization, performance, aesthetics, tanjore, dance, tradition, anthropology, folklore, nautch, salon, madras, citizenship, respectability, masculinity, marriage, femininity, subjectivity, viralimalai, andhra pradesh, selfhood, muthulakshmi reddy, nonfiction, history, memory, religion. --- Devadasis
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