Amy L. Allocco. Snakes, Goddesses, and Anthills: Modern Challenges and Women’s Ritual Responses in Contemporary South India. PhD diss., Emory University, 2009. 582 pp. [PDF]
“This dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary Hindu snake (nāga) traditions and the worship of snake goddesses (nāgāttammaṉ) in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.”