From Survival to Respect: The Narrative Performances and Ritual Authority of a Female Hindu Healer
This essay argues that through narrative performance, Valliyammal, a female Hindu healer from South India, earns respect (matippu or mariyatai), creates and maintains her ritual authority in both her domestic shrine and in public temple spaces, and legitimates her unusual religious leadership role.1...
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| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
2013
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2013, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 101-117 |
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