This latest documentary about South Asian music from Apsara Media explores the sacred music, danc... more This latest documentary about South Asian music from Apsara Media explores the sacred music, dance and rituals of women and men who are devotees of the hybrid goddess Renuka/Yellamma. Worshipped by millions in southwest India, this fertility goddess is best known through media representations and social activism protesting against her devotees' practices, which are associated with sexuality, transgendering, child abandonment and prostitution. This film attempts to balance these typically negative representations of the tradition by documenting the unique musical forms and rituals essential to the worship of the goddess Renuka/Yellamma. The goddess and her son, Parasuram, narrate throughout the film, explaining her legacy and reflecting on the practices of her followers. This film seeks to humanize her followers' acts of devotion while also presenting a balanced view of the human rights issues at stake in both banning Renuka/Yellamma's music and allowing certain aspects o...
Page 1. VOL. 48, NO. 2 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SPRING/SUMMER 2004 Sacred Songs of Khoja Muslims: Sounded ... more Page 1. VOL. 48, NO. 2 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SPRING/SUMMER 2004 Sacred Songs of Khoja Muslims: Sounded and Embodied Liturgy and Devotion AMY CATLIN-JAIRAZBHOY / University of California, Los Angeles T his ...
is one of the foremost anthropologists working on the Middle East today. In her latest book she b... more is one of the foremost anthropologists working on the Middle East today. In her latest book she brings her formidable skills as historical anthropologist and archival sleuth, theoretician and ethnographer, storyteller and writer of crystalline prose to the analysis of Egyptian rule over Gaza from 1948 to 1967. She focuses on policing and security as "a field of both governance and action" (3) in which Egyptian officials and Palestinians tried to influence each other through spying, rumormongering, moralizing, and snitching. Feldman builds on Partha Chatterjee's "politics of the
This latest documentary about South Asian music from Apsara Media explores the sacred music, danc... more This latest documentary about South Asian music from Apsara Media explores the sacred music, dance and rituals of women and men who are devotees of the hybrid goddess Renuka/Yellamma. Worshipped by millions in southwest India, this fertility goddess is best known through media representations and social activism protesting against her devotees' practices, which are associated with sexuality, transgendering, child abandonment and prostitution. This film attempts to balance these typically negative representations of the tradition by documenting the unique musical forms and rituals essential to the worship of the goddess Renuka/Yellamma. The goddess and her son, Parasuram, narrate throughout the film, explaining her legacy and reflecting on the practices of her followers. This film seeks to humanize her followers' acts of devotion while also presenting a balanced view of the human rights issues at stake in both banning Renuka/Yellamma's music and allowing certain aspects o...
Page 1. VOL. 48, NO. 2 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SPRING/SUMMER 2004 Sacred Songs of Khoja Muslims: Sounded ... more Page 1. VOL. 48, NO. 2 ETHNOMUSICOLOGY SPRING/SUMMER 2004 Sacred Songs of Khoja Muslims: Sounded and Embodied Liturgy and Devotion AMY CATLIN-JAIRAZBHOY / University of California, Los Angeles T his ...
is one of the foremost anthropologists working on the Middle East today. In her latest book she b... more is one of the foremost anthropologists working on the Middle East today. In her latest book she brings her formidable skills as historical anthropologist and archival sleuth, theoretician and ethnographer, storyteller and writer of crystalline prose to the analysis of Egyptian rule over Gaza from 1948 to 1967. She focuses on policing and security as "a field of both governance and action" (3) in which Egyptian officials and Palestinians tried to influence each other through spying, rumormongering, moralizing, and snitching. Feldman builds on Partha Chatterjee's "politics of the
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