Description
About the Author
Lucinda Ramberg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Cornell University.
Reviews
"This excellent book makes a significant contribution to religion and kinship, gender, sexuality, and South Asian studies.... Highly recommended." -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *
"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 *
"We must dwell with, as Given to the Goddess 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 *
"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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822357247
Author Lucinda Ramberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 386g