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When the world becomes female : guises of a South Indian goddess
- Title
- When the world becomes female : guises of a South Indian goddess / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.
- Author
- Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 314 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index.
- Contents
- An aesthetics of excess -- Guising, transformation, recognition, and possibility -- Narratives of excess and access -- Female-narrated possibilities of relationship -- Gangamma as Ganga river goddess -- Wandering goddess, village daughter : Avilala Reddys -- Temple and vesham mirasi : the Kaikalas of Tirupati -- The goddess served and lost : Tatayyagunta Mudaliars -- Exchanging talis with the goddess : protection and freedom to move -- "Crazy for the goddess" : a consuming relationship -- Possibilities of a world become female.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6705
- ISBN
- 9780253009524 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253009529 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253009562 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0253009561 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780253009609 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012051547
- 40022594555
- OCLC
- 811006515
- Author
- Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter.
- Title
- When the world becomes female : guises of a South Indian goddess / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.
- Publisher
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-304) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022594555
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6705