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Author : Davesh Soneji
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226768090
'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author : Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dance
ISBN : 8120803302
In this book the author has first investigated the concept of the devadasi as found in the cultural history of South India, especialy in Tamil Nadu. Hereafter the function and form of the devadasi tradition are examined within the Temple Ritual of Tamil Nadu. This is not the study of the fact of the devadasi tradition, but of its meaning and the mode of production of that meaning.
Author : S. Jeevanandam,Rekha Pande
Publisher : Gyan Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9351282104
The Title 'Devdasis in South India: A Journey from sacred to a Profane Spaces written by S. Jeevanandam, Rekha Pande' was published in the year 2017. The ISBN number 9789351282105 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 322 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies, ABOUT THE BOOK: - This book traces the gradual transition of the devadasi system from the early medieval to
Author : Lucinda Ramberg
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376415
Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research on 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. Marriage to the goddess, as well as the rites that the dedication ceremony authorizes jogatis to perform, have long been seen as illegitimate and criminalized. Kinship with the goddess is productive for the families who dedicate their children, Ramberg argues, and yet it cannot conform to modern conceptions of gender, family, or religion. This nonconformity, she suggests, speaks to the limitations of modern categories, as well as to the possibilities of relations—between and among humans and deities—that exceed such categories.
Author : Priyadarshini Vijaisri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Devadāsīs
ISBN : UOM:39015052333831
Author : Catherine Rubin Kermorgant
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788184005608
Servants of the Goddess weaves together the heartbreaking, yet paradoxically life-affirming stories of five devadasis—women, in the clutches of an ancient fertility cult, forced to serve the gods. Catherine Rubin Kermorgant sets out attempting to make a documentary film about the lives of present-day devadasis. Through her, we meet and get to know the devadasi women of Kalyana, a remote village in Karnataka. As they grow to trust Kermorgant and welcome her as an honorary sister, we hear their stories in their own words: stories of oppression, discrimination, violence and, most importantly, resilience. Kermorgant becomes a part of these stories and finds herself unwittingly enmeshed in a world of gender and caste bias which extends far beyond Kalyana—all the way to Paris, where the documentary is to be edited and produced. Servants of the Goddess is a testament to women’s strength and spirit, and a remarkably astute analysis of gender and caste relations in today’s rural India.
Author : Saskia C. Kersenboom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:246160587
Author : V. Sriram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Devadāsīs
ISBN : 8188661708
Biography of a Carnatic musician and folk theater actress from Karnataka.
Author : Barbara L. Baer
Publisher : Open Books Publishing (UK)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Caste
ISBN : 1948598086
Passionate and forbidden love clashes with tradition and caste in a changing India. Kamala Kumari is more than a Gemini Studio starlet: she's a classical dancer trained in the age-old line of Devadasis, a caste set in place a thousand years ago when girls were first dedicated in south Indian temples to serve the gods and men. From the promise of art and devotion, the sacred dancers fell into the hands of priests who both exalted and betrayed them. Beautiful, brilliant and proud, Kamala struggles to escape the old ways, entangling her Indian assistant, Dutch lover, and his young American wife. With its turbulent passions amid social upheavals, The Last Devadasi takes readers on a sensual feast in the 1970s palm-shaded trading city of Madras.
Author : Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Devadāsīs
ISBN : OCLC:610297684
Author : Veenus Jain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789390358991
Ancient India has been a land of wisdom, riches and mysteries. Its fabled saints, philosophers, ascetics, its multiplicity of Gods & religions, complex rituals and even snake charmers and magicians never ceased to fascinate the world. Socio-religious tradition of Devadasis or the 'Brides of God' as they were known in India, is one such tradition, shrouded in mystery that attracts attention. It compels a curious mind to take a closer look to learn more and understand its realities. These women are generally referred to by the term devadasi which literally means 'female servant of the deity'. This work bears on many topics such as origin, belief, development, ceremonies, organization, functions, activities, paramours, sexuality, historical survey, statistical analysis, preventive measures and the pathetic stories of devadasis. Because it was conceived as a study of women, culture and religion, it must be borne in mind that all these concerns are dealt with as they arise out of a close attention to the practices of the devadasis.
Author : Jogan Shankar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015021600658
Study on the devadasis, female dancers and singers, traditionally attached to temples; with particular reference to Karnataka.
Author : Leslie C. Orr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195356724
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. This book shows how temple women's initiative and economic autonomy involved them in medieval temple politics and allowed them to establish themselves in roles with particular social and religious meanings. This study suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman and, more generally, of the roles of women in Indian religion and society.
Author : Alice Thorner,Maithreyi Krishna Raj
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8125008438
Women studies as a distinct field emerged in India in the mid-seventies. But preoccupation with the position of women dates back to more than a century and a half. By the use of methods of history, literary criticism and analysis of discourse, this volume seeks not only to illustrate the broadening of the sphere of women studies in India in recent years, but also to point to the need for relating ideas about women and gender relations to the social and economic forces that shape history.
Author : K. Sadasivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Devadāsīs
ISBN : UOM:39015042820178
Study covers the period 300 B.C.-1800 A.D.
