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305 Index Abhinaya darpanā: model of performance aesthetics , 246. See also Nātyaśāstra aesthetic model of performance; Rasa theory abhiyāsā (attunement), 256–257; as accommodation and adjustment, 243, 261; of immigrant to host society, 267–268 abortion: of female fetuses, 124; spontaneous, 126. See also miscarriage Abu-Lughod, Leila, 235, 236, 270–271 action: improvisational nature of, 180; purposive (Heidegger), 175–177, 180–181; strategic (Bourdieu), 181, 269. See also “body of habit” affect/emotions, 30, 44, 105, 106, 145, 162–163, 205, 207; affective projects, 25; affective turn in the humanities and social sciences, 6, 302; attachment of state intellectuals to modernity, 31, 34–36; and attention (Durkheim), 229, 243; central importance of, 179–180, 229, 243; embodied emotion, 155–156, 179, 219, 225 (see also MerleauPonty , Maurice); in performance, 155–156, 218, 246–247, 259 (see also Rasa theory); rationality (Milton), 103; responding to violent death, 102–103; social theory not adequately accounting for, 6, 73, 105; Sorge (care) (Heidegger), 20, 103, 117, 221, 222, 229; in tragedy, 102, 103 agency, 10, 71; as attribute of intellectuals, 38; conventional model of, 143–144; defined, 36–37; epic heroines having only one means of, 97–98; in European mythic texts, 143; in female mediums, 144–146, 148–149, 154–155; feminist analysis of, 261–268; habit and agency, 260–262; hierarchy of, 252; issue of choice and consent, 261, 263–266; liberal political theory, 230–231; modernist conception of, 38 (exaggeration of will), 264–265; performance practice as model of, 259–260; as planning, 37–38; political agency, 263; in pregnancy (attunement to demands of), 150–154; in receptivity, 155, 273–274; as residing in spirit, 130; skill development, 154–155. See also paḻakkam Ahmad, A., on agency and piety, 267 Alex, G., 220 alliance model of marriage, 93, 94, 97 Althusser, Louis, on the temporality of the revolutionary, 176–177 ambiguity in possession, 145, 226–227. See also existential ambiguities Ammā, Lakshmi, of Pernaka, 127 Ammaṉ (Hindu goddess): an epithet of Icakki Ammaṉ, 44, 46, 50; an upper-caste goddess, 45–46; as wholly good, 46 Amuda, 276 Annadurai, C. N., 36 Ᾱṇṭāḷ (Tamil goddess), 111 anti-Brahman movement, 58 anticolonial thought and movement, 31, 33, 35. See also colonialism aṟivu (self-knowledge), 202 āṭṭam, in possession, 112–113 attunement. See abhiyāsā “auspiciousness,” 116, 130, 247, 261 authoritative models of knowledge, 168–169 Ayurveda/Ayurvedic medicine, 40, 44, 252 306 Index “backward” identities/“backwardness,” 16, 23–24, 30, 40, 55. See also caste and class “Basic Christian Communities” projects, 13 Battersby, Christine, 150 Benjamin, Walter, 104 bhakti devotion, 111, 162, 111 Bharadwaj, A., 40–41 Bharata Nāṭyam performances, 247 biomedicine, 14; constructions of pregnancy, 152 (see also pregnancy) birth control. See contraception; family planning ; fertility control Blackburn, Stuart, 88, 89, 133, 253, 279n.6 Boddy, Janice, 130, 238–239, 240–241 bodily movement: agency and, 215–216; continuities of (the “body of habit”), 249; personhood expressed through, 234–238; of women in possession, 49, 245–248, 250, 251, 271 (see also female possession) bodily secretions, 114; breast milk, 118–119; uterine blood, 118–119. See also menstruation /menstrual blood body, the: alteration of bodily boundaries, 2, 150–152, 189–190; bodily memory, 104–105; bodily resistance, 258; bodily understanding, 250; body as a container, 233, 234; mutilation of, 97, 104; temporality of bodily involvement , 260–261. See also embodiment body of fertility, 18–19 “body of habit” (Merleau-Ponty), 177–180, 268 Bollywood. See Indian “goddess cinema” Bourdieu, Pierre, 161, 186, 235–236, 243, 252; on agency as strategy, 181, 269; on embodiment , 269; on habitus, 180–182, 267 (see also habitus); Marxism in, 268–269; Outline of a Theory of Practice, 182; “Response to Throop and Murphy,” 182 brahmacharya, 26, contrasted with female virginity, 117 Brahman caste, 243; colonial construction of, 58; dominant agriculturalists in Tamil, 58; marriage in, 92–93; possession among Brahman brides, 84, 228, 241–243; treatment of female puberty, 120. See also caste and class bride: as a goddess, 121; possessed by goddess(es), 73, 84, 237; removed from her maternal home, 107–109, 200, 201–220; “ripening” in marriage, 202; status of, 7–8, 9–10, 20, 202. See also patrilineal marriage and kinship; Santi of Katalkarai ūr; Vijaya (Kanyakumari bride) Bulbeck, C., 261 Butalia, Urvashi, 265 Butler, Judith: on abjection, 122–128; Gender Trouble, 179, 243, 258; problems with model of gender as performance, 243–244, 245 Cambridge Women’s Group, analysis of female possession, 79...

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