Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

Impersonations The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

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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 cha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland University of California Press 2019
Berkeley, CA : [2019]
Materias:
Brahmans > India, South > Social life and customs.
Female impersonators > India, South > Social life and customs.
Gender identity in dance > India, South.
Kuchipudi (Dance) > Social aspects > India, South.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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.
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)
Also available in print form
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520301665

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