INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE AND MAKING - Dancing on Empire''s Stage

List of contents

1. Setting the Scene: Theorising Indian Dance in Post/Coloniality

2. Keeping Time: Constructions and Performances of Historical Narrative

3. Covering Space: Mobility, Transnationalism, Ethnicity

4. Playing Roles: Postcolonial Performances of Gender

5. Marking the Stage: Finding the Religious, Spiritual and Secular in Indian Classical Dance

6. Conclusion

About the author

Sitara Thobani received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. She has lectured at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Summary

Previous studies have analysed Indian classical dance as an expression of Indian religious and nationalist culture, examining the art form solely in the context of Indian history and culture. In investigating performances of Indian classical dance in the UK it is possible to argue that classical Indian dance has become a key aspect of the mutual

Product details

• Authors: Sitara Thobani, Thobani Sitara
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367885410
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88541-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, Anthropology, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism