Magical hair as dirt: Ecstatic bodies and postcolonial reform in South India

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 501-522

  Ramberg, Lucinda ^a,b  

^a HARVARD DIVINITY SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Devadasis; Medicalization; Postcolonial governance; Sexuality; The body; Women and Hinduism

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; RELIGION; SOCIAL CHANGE;

COLONIALISM; CULTURE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HAIR PREPARATIONS; HINDUISM; HUMANS; INDIA; POLITICS; RELIGION AND SEX; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 70350347160     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-009-9147-1     Document Type: Article

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