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03212aam a2200409 i 4500 001 B85B608AB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 190102s2019 cauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018061418 020 $a 0520301668 020 $a 9780520301665 035 $a (OCoLC)1055264302 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a DS432.B73 $b K36 2019 082 00 $a 306.4/846081109548 $2 23 100 1 $a Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, $d 1982- $e author. 245 10 $a Impersonations : $b the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in South Indian dance / $c Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 225 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Occupying center stage : impersonation and the classicization of Kuchipudi -- "I am Satyabhama" : constructing hegemonic brahmin masculinity in the Kuchipudi village -- Constructing artifice, interrogating impersonation : Madhavi as viduÌsÌ£aka in village Bhamakalapam performance -- Bhamakalapam beyond the village : transgressing norms of gender and sexuality in urban and transnational Kuchipudi dance -- Longing to dance : stories of Kuchipudi brahmin women. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Brahmans $z India, South $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Gender identity in dance $z India, South. 650 0 $a Female impersonators $z India, South $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Kuchipudi (Dance) $x Social aspects $z India, South. 650 7 $a Brahmans $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837542 650 7 $a Gender identity in dance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00939605 651 7 $a India, South. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01692635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti, 1982- author. $t Impersonations $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] $z 9780520972230 $w (DLC) 2019003975 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217023933.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190806075823.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B85B608AB81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search