South Asia Center co-sponsored by Department of AnthropologyPresents: Lucinda Ramberg, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

"Clinical Encounters and Citizenship Projects in South India"

Dedicated to a South Indian goddess, devadasis are priests in a healing cult whose non-monogamous sexuality has been designated as prostitution and subjected to eradication by the state. This paper considers them in two ways they cross the threshold of the clinic: as "vectors of disease" and as sex worker peer educators, in order to think about the biopolitical character of citizenship in postcolonial India.

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Location:	Maxwell Auditorium
Price:	free
Sponsoring department/organization:	Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Contact:	Nicholas Turner npturner@maxwell.syr.edu 443-9248
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