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In Abundance, Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the archives of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj--a caste-oppressed devadasi collective in South Asia--that are plentiful and quotidian, imaginative and ordinary. For Arondekar, abundance is inextricably linked to the histories of subordinated groups in ways that challenge narratives of their constant devaluation. Summoning abundance over loss upends settled genealogies of historical recuperation and representation and works against the imperative to fix sexuality within wider structures of vulnerability, damage, and precarity. Multigeneric and multilingual, transregional and historically supple, Abundance centers sexuality within area, post/colonial, and anti/caste histories.--

Sex --- Sexual minorities --- Decolonization --- Devadāsīs --- Queer theory. --- Historiography. --- Social aspects --- History. --- South Asia. --- India

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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

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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.