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Informationen zum Autor Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University. She is author of In Amma's Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (IUP, 2009) and Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Klappentext Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger is Professor of Religion at Emory University. She is author of In Amma¿s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India (IUP, 2009) and Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India. Zusammenfassung Argues that within the festival of the goddess Gangamma ultimate reality is imagined as female Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction Part 1. 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 2. 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: Tattayagunta Mudaliars 9. Exchanging Talis with the Goddess: Protection and Freedom to Move 10. "Crazy for the Goddess": A Consuming Relationship Conclusion: Possibilities of a World Become Female Glossary Notes References Index
