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Impersonations - The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (Paperback) Loot Price: R787
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Impersonations - The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (Paperback): Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

Impersonations - The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (Paperback)

Harshita Mruthinti Kamath

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Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries-village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative-to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2019
First published: 2019
Authors: Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30166-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
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LSN: 0-520-30166-8
Barcode: 9780520301665

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