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Autore |
Verma Archana |
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Titolo |
Performance and culture [[electronic resource] ] : narrative, image and enactment in India / / by Archana Verma |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-14274-0 |
9786613142740 |
1-4438-2832-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Dance - India |
Performing arts - India - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-143) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Visual Language of the Divine Dance -- Text and Image of Shiva's Dance Sculptures in Indian Temples -- 2. Satirizing the Ideal -- Chaturbhani (A Collection of Four Sanskrit Burlesque Plays from Ancient India) -- 3. Eroticism in Indian Classical Dance -- Odissi -- 4. Satirizing the Sacred Narrative -- Dance-Drama from Kerala -- 5. Performance in the Folk Expressions of the Women of Mithila -- 6. Imageries of Power -- An Exegesis of Folk Performance Narratives -- 7. Cinematic Narration, Women Dancers and Cultural Memory of Ancient India -- Two Hindi Films Chitralekha (1964) and Amrapali (1966). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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... |
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