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Donors, devotees, and daughters of God: temple women in medieval Tamilnadu
Leslie C. Orr
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Frontmatter
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Methods of Transliteration, Abbreviation, and Citation (page xi)
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ONE Introduction
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Devadāsīs and Dancing-girls (page 3)
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In a Different Landscape (page 18)
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TWO Discerning and Delineating the Figure of the Temple Woman (page 37)
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Definitions and Locations (page 37)
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Devotees and Daughters of God (page 48)
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THREE Temple Women as Temple Patrons
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Property and Piety: Women and the Temple (page 65)
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Patterns of Patronage of Temple Women (page 75)
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FOUR Temple Women as Temple Servants
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The Design of Temple Life in Medieval Tamilnadu (page 89)
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Reputation, Recognition, and Responsibility (page 98)
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Serving in the Temple (page 102)
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Service, Support, and Status (page 126)
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FIVE Identity, Geography, Religion, and Kinship
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Temple Women and the Medieval Religious Landscape (page 135)
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Daughters of Women and Daughters of God (page 149)
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SIX Conclusions
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The Temple Women of Medieval Tamilnadu (page 161)
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Politics and Place, Margins and Centers (page 164)
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From the Chola Period Temple Woman to the Twentieth-Century Devadāsī (page 172)
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Appendix I (page 181)
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Appendix II (page 183)
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Appendix III (page 185)
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Notes (page 193)
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Bibliography (page 263)
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Index (page 291)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ENHR | 116.467 (Jun. 2001): 708-709 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/579847 |
JR | 81.2 (Apr. 2001): 329-330 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1205579 |
IJHS | 9.1/3 (Jan. 2005): 179-181 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/20106930 |
JAS | 60.3 (Aug. 2001): 906-908 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2700163 |
JAOS | 122 4 (Oct. - Dec. 2002): 919-920 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3217676 |
JAAR | 70.3 (Sep. 2002): 659-661 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1466540 |
Citable Link
Published: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195099621 (hardcover)
- 9780195356724 (ebook)