Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

by Davesh Soneji

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Unfinished Gestures presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226768104

ISBN13:9780226768106

Release Date:January 2012

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"

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Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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