Paul Younger's article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1980, pages 493 to 517, is peer-reviewed academic scholarship. Its strength is that it is a direct scholarly study of Mariyamman worship, the most widespread Tamil village goddess, originally associated with smallpox, based on Younger's own fieldwork. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single article grounded in specific fieldwork: it documents the festival and tradition Younger observed, not every regional variation of Mariyamman worship across Tamil Nadu.
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Tier one: a peer reviewed article in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, a direct scholarly study of Mariyamman worship based on the author's own fieldwork. Its limit is the ordinary one for a single article grounded in specific fieldwork: it documents the festival and tradition observed, not every regional variation of Mariyamman worship across Tamil Nadu. NotesPages 493-517. Peer-reviewed study of Mariyamman worship, the most widespread Tamil village goddess, originally associated with smallpox. Use for the Dravidian fact's village-deity clause.
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AuthorPaul Younger
PublisherJournal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 48, no. 4
Publication Year1980
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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