When the world becomes female : guises of a South Indian goddess /
During the goddess Gangamma's festival in the town of Tirupati, lower-caste men take guises of the goddess, and the streets are filled with men wearing saris, braids, and female jewelry. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, su...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780253009609 025300960X 1299667635 9781299667631 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- An aesthetics of excess
- Guising, transformation, recognition, and possibility
- Narratives of excess and access
- Female-narrated possibilities of relationship
- Gangamma as Ganga river goddess
- Wandering goddess, village daughter : Avilala Reddys
- Temple and vesham mirasi : the Kaikalas of Tirupati
- The goddess served and lost : Tatayyagunta Mudaliars
- Exchanging talis with the goddess : protection and freedom to move
- "Crazy for the goddess" : a consuming relationship
- Possibilities of a world become female.