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Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion Lucinda Ramberg
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion
Lucinda Ramberg
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.
296 pages, 25 illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 17, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822357100 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 296 |
| Dimensions | 237 × 160 × 23 mm · 532 g |
| Language | English |
