MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 110517s2011 ilu b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aBL1237.58.D48$bS66 2011
082 00 $a306.6/94538082$223
100 1 $aSoneji, Devesh.
245 10 $aUnfinished gestures :$bdevadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /$cDavesh Soneji.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$cc2011.
263 $a1112
300 $ap. cm.
490 1 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aOn 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.
650 0 $aDevadāsīs$zIndia, South.
650 0 $aDevadāsīs$zIndia, South$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aDance$xSocial aspects$zIndia, South.
650 0 $aProstitution$zIndia, South.
650 0 $aSocial change$zIndia, South.
830 0 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines.