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Author Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author.

Title Impersonations : the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Occupying center stage : impersonation and the classicization of Kuchipudi -- "I am Satyabhama" : constructing hegemonic brahmin masculinity in the Kuchipudi village -- Constructing artifice, interrogating impersonation : Madhavi as vidaka in village Bhamakalapam performance -- Bhamakalapam beyond the village : transgressing norms of gender and sexuality in urban and transnational Kuchipudi dance -- Longing to dance : stories of Kuchipudi brahmin women.
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
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Subject Brahmans -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
Gender identity in dance -- India, South.
Female impersonators -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects -- India, South.
Brahmanes -- Inde (Sud) -- Mœurs et coutumes.
Identité de genre dans la danse -- Inde (Sud)
Acteurs travestis -- Inde (Sud) -- Mœurs et coutumes.
Kuchipudi -- Aspect social -- Inde (Sud)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Brahmans -- Social life and customs
Gender identity in dance
South India
Indexed Term 20th century.
brahmin to non brahmin.
female characters.
gender performance.
hindu religious narratives.
impersonation.
kuchipudi village.
localized village performance.
male body.
masculinity.
men.
practice of impersonation.
smarta brahmin.
south india.
stage.
stri vesham.
telugu.
transnational indian dance form.
village to urban.
Other Form: Print version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- Impersonations. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520301665 (DLC) 2018061418
ISBN 0520972236
0520301668
9780520301665
9780520972230 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000065481997

 
    
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