...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...

... 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...

... this may be open to debate, it is certain that Ali is mistaken in believing that contemporary ethnographic literature "suggests that sexual favors also formed a source of [temple women's} income" (p. 908). As I point out in my book, the studies of Frederique Marglin, Saskia Kersenboom, and Amrit Srinivasan...

... Asian Household [ P A T R I C I A JEFFERY] GUHA, The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941 [ALICE w . CLARK] JAIN and AGGARWALA, National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi [JIM MASSELOS] KAKAR, Primary Health Care and Traditional Practitioners [ROGER JEFFERY] KERSENBOOM-STORY...