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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464096603321

Autore

Verma Archana

Titolo

Performance and culture [[electronic resource] ] : narrative, image and enactment in India / / by Archana Verma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14274-0

9786613142740

1-4438-2832-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

792.0954

Soggetti

Dance - India

Performing arts - India - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with various aspects of performance in India; especially that related to dance and dance-drama. Rather than being a description of the various dance forms of India, it attempts to discuss various social equations and cultural ideas that a performance attempts to portray. In this sense, a performance is a narrative. At the same time, performances also deal with well-known narratives from the religious traditions of India, often redefining and recounting them in the process of p...