ANTH301 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 13: Cinema Of India, Biopolitics, Masaan

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Name of reading : ramberg (2015) and review of the course: nonconjugal: relates to a non-marriage based relationship. In the context of this article the non-marriage sexual relationship of the devadasi. Biopolitical citizenship: the intersect of biology and politics in the context of citizenship of a country/state: state in a few sentences, the key themes of this work. This work discusses the bio-political policies for devadasi women in india and the societal stigma around being a devadasi and how this can potentially lead to devadasi women not receiving adequate health care. According to this article as devadasi women engage in sex outside marital relationships they are considered prostitutes therefore they are considered to be vectors of disease . The topic of devadasi women was covered in week 5, however the week 5 readings mainly gave an outline of the types of dance they did and their significance.

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