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Author | : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520301668 |
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. 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.
Author | : Sheryl Hamilton |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1442669640 |
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Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of the person is neither benign nor uncontested. Boundaries that previously worked to secure our place in the social order are blurring as never before. What does it mean, then, to be a person in the twenty-first century? In Impersonations, Sheryl N. Hamilton uses five different kinds of persons - corporations, women, clones, computers, and celebrities - to discuss the instability of the concept of personhood and to examine some of the ways in which broader social anxieties are expressed in these case studies. She suggests that our investment in personhood is greater now than it has been for years, and that our ongoing struggle to define the term is evident in law and popular culture. Using a cultural studies of law approach, the author examines important issues such as whether the person is a gender-neutral concept based on individual rights, the relationship between personhood and the body, and whether persons can be property. Impersonations is a highly original study that brings together legal, philosophical, and cultural expressions of personhood to enliven current debates about our place in the world.
Author | : Stanley Schell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Readers |
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Author | : Helen Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Acting |
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Author | : Stephen Orgel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996-02-29 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521568425 |
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A provocative exploration of gender in the Renaissance, from theatrical cross-dressing to cultural subversion.
Author | : Charles Hiatt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1898 |
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Author | : Ermine Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Readers |
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Author | : Edward George Harman |
Publisher | : AMS Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Edwin Hartley Pratt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Anatomy |
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Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1913 |
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