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1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Open Access EbpS |
Subject |
Brahmans -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
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Gender identity in dance -- India, South.
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Female impersonators -- India, South -- Social life and customs.
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Kuchipudi (Dance) -- Social aspects -- India, South.
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Brahmanes -- Inde (Sud) -- Mœurs et coutumes.
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Identité de genre dans la danse -- Inde (Sud)
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Acteurs travestis -- Inde (Sud) -- Mœurs et coutumes.
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Kuchipudi -- Aspect social -- Inde (Sud)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Brahmans -- Social life and customs
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Gender identity in dance
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South India
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20th century. |
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brahmin to non brahmin. |
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female characters. |
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gender performance. |
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hindu religious narratives. |
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impersonation. |
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kuchipudi village. |
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localized village performance. |
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male body. |
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masculinity. |
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men. |
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practice of impersonation. |
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smarta brahmin. |
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south india. |
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stage. |
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stri vesham. |
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telugu. |
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transnational indian dance form. |
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village to urban. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- Impersonations. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] 9780520301665 (DLC) 2018061418 |
ISBN |
0520972236 |
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0520301668 |
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9780520301665 |
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9780520972230 (electronic bk.) |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000065481997 |
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