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J709.9 版次： |
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著者:
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Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, |
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题名:
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Impersonations : [ the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance /] / , |
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载体形态:
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xv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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内容提要:
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"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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主题词:
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Brahmans Social life and customs. India, South |
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Gender identity in dance India, South. |
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Female impersonators Social life and customs. India, South |
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Kuchipudi (Dance) Social aspects India, South. |