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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Glavni avtor: Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Bloomington : Indiana University Press 2013.
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16gh90d