When the world becomes female [[electronic resource] ] : guises of a South Indian goddess / / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger |
Autore | Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.5/2114 |
Soggetto topico |
Gangamma (Hindu deity) - Cult - India - Tirupati
Worship (Hinduism) |
ISBN | 0-253-00960-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; Part One. Imaginative Worlds of Gangamma; 1. An Aesthetics of Excess; 2. Guising, Transformation, Recognition, and Possibility; 3. Narratives of Excess and Access; 4. Female-Narrated Possibilities of Relationship; 5. Gangamma as Ganga River Goddess; Part Two. 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: Tatayyagunta Mudaliars
9. Exchanging Talis with the Goddess: Protection and Freedom to Move10. "Crazy for the Goddess": A Consuming Relationship; Conclusion: Possibilities of a World Become Female; GLOSSARY; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792012903321 |
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When the world becomes female : guises of a South Indian goddess / / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger |
Autore | Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.5/2114 |
Soggetto topico |
Gangamma (Hindu deity) - Cult - India - Tirupati
Worship (Hinduism) |
ISBN | 0-253-00960-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; Part One. Imaginative Worlds of Gangamma; 1. An Aesthetics of Excess; 2. Guising, Transformation, Recognition, and Possibility; 3. Narratives of Excess and Access; 4. Female-Narrated Possibilities of Relationship; 5. Gangamma as Ganga River Goddess; Part Two. 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: Tatayyagunta Mudaliars
9. Exchanging Talis with the Goddess: Protection and Freedom to Move10. "Crazy for the Goddess": A Consuming Relationship; Conclusion: Possibilities of a World Become Female; GLOSSARY; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815478903321 |
Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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