{"product_id":"given-to-the-goddess-9780822357100","title":"Given to the Goddess","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies…. Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a beautifully written and theoretically engaged ethnography about a community whose past has been fraught and whose future lies in the balance. It would be appropriate reading for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses and makes an important contribution to the anthropology of gender, sexuality, kinship, religion, and modernity in India.” -- Cecilia Van Hollen * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"We must dwell with, as \u003ci\u003eGiven to the Goddess\u003c\/i\u003e gracefully does, the everyday experiences of devotion, exchange, and one’s social relationship to another—human, nonhuman, or even goddess—that make us, quite simply, kin.\" -- Durba Mitra * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\"Ramberg’s work exemplifies an extraordinary synthesis of animated empiricism and theoretical rigor. It is heartening to mark the arrival of this very important work that signals a critical departure in several ways.\" -- Priyadarshini Vijaisri * Anthropos *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Gods, Gifts, Trouble 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Gods \u003cbr\u003e 1. Yellamma and Her Sisters: Kinship among Goddesses and Others 39\u003cbr\u003e 2. Yellamma, Her Wives, and the Question of Religion 71\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Gifts \u003cbr\u003e 3. Tantra, Shakta, Yellamma 113\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Giving of Daughters: Sexual Economy, Sexual Agency, and the \"Traffic\" in Women 142\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Trouble \u003cbr\u003e 5. Kinship Trouble 181\u003cbr\u003e 6. Troubling Kinship 213\u003cbr\u003e Notes 223\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 247\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 251\u003cbr\u003e Index 270","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406082220375,"sku":"9780822357100","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357100.jpg?v=1730494466","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/given-to-the-goddess-9780822357100","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}