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devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India

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devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English

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Subjects
Social conditions, Dance, Devadāsīs, Prostitution, Social change, Dancers, Dance, india, Prostitution, india
Places
South India

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Unfinished gestures: devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India
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Chicago, London

Table of Contents

On historical, social, and aesthetic borderlands
Producing dance in colonial Tanjore
Whatever happened to the South Indian nautch?: toward a cultural history of salon dance in Madras
Subterfuges of "respectable" citizenship: marriage and masculinity in the discourse of devadāsā reform
Historical traces and unfinished subjectivity: remembering devadāsā dance at Viralimalai
Performing untenable pasts: aesthetics and selfhood in coastal Andhra Pradesh
Coda: gesturing to devadāsā pasts in today's Chennai.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
South Asia across the disciplines, South Asia across the disciplines

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Dewey Decimal Class
306.6/94538082
Library of Congress
BL1237.58.D48 S66 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24858239M
Internet Archive
unfinishedgestur00sone
ISBN 10
0226768090, 0226768104
ISBN 13
9780226768090, 9780226768106
LCCN
2011020833

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