LEADER 04466 am 22008053u 450 001 996312639803316 005 20221206181533.0 010 $a0-520-30166-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520972230 035 $a(OCoLC)1055264302 035 $a(CKB)4100000008496769 035 $a(DE-B1597)539937 035 $a(OCoLC)1083701605 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520972230 035 $a(ScCtBLL)e8c0cf19-1a68-42e4-b652-8a618b467c3f 035 $aEBL6984274 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6984274 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008496769 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurm|#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImpersonations $eThe Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance /$fHarshita Mruthinti Kamath 210 1$aBerkeley, CA : $cUniversity of California Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$aPrint version: 9780520301665 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Transliteration -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Taking Center Stage: The Poet-Saint and the Impersonator of Kuchipudi Dance History -- $t2. "I am Satyabhama": Constructing Hegemonic Brahmin Masculinity in the Kuchipudi Village -- $t3. Constructing Artifice, Interrogating Impersonation: Madhavi as Vidu?s?aka in Village Bha?ma?kala?pam Performance -- $t4. Bha?ma?kala?pam beyond the Village: Transgressing Norms of Gender and Sexuality in Urban and Transnational Kuchipudi Dance -- $t5. Longing to Dance: Stories of Kuchipudi Brahmin Women -- $tConclusion: Rewriting the Script for Kuchipudi Dance -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aLearn 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. 606 $aBrahmans$zIndia, South$xSocial life and customs 606 $aFemale impersonators$zIndia, South$xSocial life and customs 606 $aGender identity in dance$zIndia, South 606 $aKuchipudi (Dance)$xSocial aspects$zIndia, South 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General$2bisacsh 610 $a20th century. 610 $abrahmin to non brahmin. 610 $afemale characters. 610 $agender performance. 610 $ahindu religious narratives. 610 $aimpersonation. 610 $akuchipudi village. 610 $alocalized village performance. 610 $amale body. 610 $amasculinity. 610 $amen. 610 $apractice of impersonation. 610 $asmarta brahmin. 610 $asouth india. 610 $astage. 610 $astri vesham. 610 $atelugu. 610 $atransnational indian dance form. 610 $avillage to urban. 615 0$aBrahmans$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aFemale impersonators$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aGender identity in dance 615 0$aKuchipudi (Dance)$xSocial aspects 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. 676 $a306.4/846081109548 700 $aKamath$b Harshita Mruthinti, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0894945 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996312639803316 996 $aImpersonations$91999523 997 $aUNISA