Joyce Flueckiger, Emory University
Performativity and Agency of the Material Guise (Vesham) in a South Indian Goddess Tradition
Joyce Flueckiger situates stri vesham in a wider repertoire of guising in Gangamma traditions, which provides commentary on the agency of material guising, and argues that stri vesham does not make men women, but transforms their masculinity.
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