Impersonations The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

Impersonations The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance

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Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis, this book centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India, who are required to don strī-vēṣam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu re...

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Main Author: Mruthinti Kamath, Harshita (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oakland University of California Press 2019
Subjects:
Asian history
Religion: general
Anthropology
impersonation
Kuchipudi
brahmin masculinity
Telugu
South India
Indian dance
strī-vēṣam
woman's guise
gender
caste
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