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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 February 1990
...Kay K. Jordan Nityasumaṅgalī: Devadasi Tradition in South India . By Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story . Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass , 1987 . xxii, 226 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 184 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES qualified practitioners...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (3): 866–867.
Published: 01 August 2016
... obligations and claims on others, social obligations and forms of value” (p. 211). Marriage to Yellama creates one set of commitments and forms of value; marriage to a man according to the norms of the modern state, another. Like other devadasis, jogatis have been targeted as objects of reform for more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1181–1183.
Published: 01 November 2012
... of gaping disparity—that of gender disparities within devadasi communities themselves and the new, contemporary caste categories to which they have given rise: the icai velalar and suryabalija groups of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, respectively. Even as renowned and accomplished female artists from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 663–668.
Published: 01 May 2002
... and the upper water-giving castes of Puri "were not at all like those of common prostitutes not attached to temples." Since devadasis were supported by kings and temples, according to Marglin, and resided in their own COMMUNICATIONS TO THE EDITOR 667 households, they did not depend on their lovers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 February 1990
... if these weaknesses detracted from the importance of Kakar's attempt to contribute to a necessary reorientation of India's health policies. ROGER JEFFERY University of Edinburgh Nityasumahgali: Devadasi Tradition in South India. By SASKIA C. KERSENBOOM-STORY. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1987. xxii, 226pp. $24.00...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 774–777.
Published: 01 August 2021
... gives examples of intersections between the different media as practitioners from both Brahmin and devadasi communities worked in multiple fields. As composers, choreographers, and dance teachers moved between film and stage, working with both devadasi and Brahmin students, choreographies moved from...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 906–908.
Published: 01 August 2001
... York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 305 pp. $45.00 (cloth). This book, by focusing closely on inscriptions from the Chola period (950 1250), reexamines our received images of the devadasi in medieval India. Leslie Orr attempts to overturn both the reformist image of the tevaratiyar (Tamil), or temple...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 839–840.
Published: 01 August 2012
... commands enormous and enthusiastic devotion. A bow-song ensemble dramatically narrates the southern Icakki tradition that tells of a Devadasi woman, wronged and abused by a dishonest Brahmin, who then murders the woman for her jewels. In another rebirth, the wronged Devadasi woman returns as the avenging...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 586–588.
Published: 01 May 1998
..., but they had always exercised that power from within the royal household. Kingly power, in similar fashion, had always secured a legitimating authority from feminine sakti, often expressed through royal intercourse with devadasi dancers. Under the BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 587 British, association with devadasis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (4): 1197–1199.
Published: 01 November 2011
... study is designed to show how the worship of the goddess Lakshmi has evolved and yet remained constant from the Vedic period up to the present. The author's treatment of inauspiciousness could have been more fully developed, and her celebration of the devadasis or “sacred royal courtesans” (p. 27...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 834–835.
Published: 01 August 2012
... the transition from the power of a monarch to the bureaucratic system of “modernity”. She focuses on the regulations regarding women's inheritance rights in the cases of devadasis and child brides. In both of these cases, women became the site on which issues of tradition, gender, and morality could...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (3): 935–937.
Published: 01 August 2010
... not happen in isolation from other discussions about performance, and she has included Amrit Srinivasan's 1985 landmark essay from Economic and Political Weekly , “Reform and Revival: The Devadasi and Her Dance.” While this piece is not specifically about modern Indian theater, the arguments and strategies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 945–962.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Press . John Mary E. , and Janaki Nair , eds. 1998 . A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India . New Delhi : Manohar . Jordan Kay K. 2003 . From Sacred Servant to Profane Prostitute: A History of the Changing Legal Status of the Devadasis in India, 1857–1947...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1154–1155.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., in an innovative turn, thinks through the logics and methods of the historiography of sexuality to posit the Devadasi beyond the frames allowed her as sexual figure, and instead considers the possibilities she offers for more broadly framing the political. Part 5 is comprised of three chapters on sex-worker...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (2): 522–524.
Published: 01 May 2020
... overview of the dance tradition and its claims to power in the twentieth century. Citing critical studies on the construction of masculinity and devadasi (courtesan) cultures in Indian classical dance in the first half of the book, Kamath rehearses the mytho-historical and hagiographical narratives...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 97–98.
Published: 01 February 1990
... in the 1930s and 1940s to abolish temple "prostitution" through a discussion of the 97 98 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES devadasi community and its dissolution. It is a fascinating study of the disempowerment of women by the state that involved men of their own community. Haleh Afshar discusses the public...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 905–906.
Published: 01 August 2001
... the Chola period (950 1250), reexamines our received images of the devadasi in medieval India. Leslie Orr attempts to overturn both the reformist image of the tevaratiyar (Tamil), or temple woman, as exploited prostitute, as well as the revisionist portrayal of her as an embodiment of ritual auspiciousness...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 396–397.
Published: 01 February 1982
...Richard Cashman 396 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (devadasi) prostitution, and sanctions against widow remarriage (sati or widow burning was outlawed in 1827-1828). Against such they threw their energies; however, they also strove to raise the status of women through literacy, educational, medical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (1): 98–99.
Published: 01 February 1990
..., Inc. 1990 1990 98 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES devadasi community and its dissolution. It is a fascinating study of the disempowerment of women by the state that involved men of their own community. Haleh Afshar discusses the public and private aspects of the Ayatollah Khomeini's policies toward...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (2): 395–396.
Published: 01 February 1982
... infanticide, early (or child) marriage, dancing (nautch) girls and temple 396 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES (devadasi) prostitution, and sanctions against widow remarriage (sati or widow burning was outlawed in 1827-1828). Against such they threw their energies; however, they also strove to raise the status...
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