When the World Becomes Female
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-00952-4 (ISBN)
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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 jewellery. By contrast, women participate by intensifying the rituals they perform for Gangamma throughout the year, such as cooking and offering food. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger argues that within the festival ultimate reality is imagined as female and women identify with the goddess, whose power they share. Vivid accounts by male and female participants offer new insights into Gangamma's traditions and the nature of Hindu village goddesses.
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University. She is author of In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (IUP, 2009) and Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India.
Introduction Part I. Imaginative Worlds of Gangamma 1. An Aesthetics of Excess; 2. Guising, Transformation, and Recognition; 3. Narratives of Access and Excess; 4. Women's Narrative Interpretation; 5. Gangamma as Ganga River Goddess Part II. Those Who Bear the Goddess 6. Wandering Goddess, Village Daughter: Avilala Reddys; 7. Temple and Vesham Mirasi: The Kaikalas of Tirupati; 8. The Goddess Served and Lost: Tattayagunta Mudaliars; 9. Exchanging Talis with the Goddess; 10. "Crazy for the Goddess:" A Consuming Relationship Conclusion: Possibilities of a World Become Female
| Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-00952-9 / 0253009529 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-00952-4 / 9780253009524 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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