Outward Bound with Ayyappan: Work, Masculinity, and Self-Respect in a South Indian Pilgrimage Festival
The annual pilgrimage festival dedicated to the god Ayyappan has become immensely popular in the past sixty years. As many as fifty million pilgrims participate each year. This paper draws on interviews of pilgrims conducted in South India in 2012-2013. My fieldwork suggests that the increasing popu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2016]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 118-136 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Śabarimala
/ Pilgrimage
/ Masculinity
/ Detachment
/ Self-worth appreciation
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism KBM Asia KCD Hagiography; saints |
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Gender Identity
B Masculinity B Pilgrimage B Globalization B Migrant labor B Asceticism |
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