The power of performance : actors, audiences, and observers of cultural performances in India / edited by Heidrun Brückner, Elisabeth Schömbucher, Phillip B. Zarrilli
- Bib ID:
- 4351801
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (16th : 2000 : University of Edinburgh)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- New Delhi : Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2007
- 290 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 8173047685
- Summary:
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Based on panel discussions at the Sixteenth European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies held in Edinburgh, Sept. 2000.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION
- Heidrun Briickner and Elisabeth Schbmbucher 7
- PART I: THE PERFORMER: POWER AND PRESENCE
- IN THE ENACTMENT OF THE PERFORMER
- 1. Spectacle and Power in the Organization of Kingly Ritual:
- The Case of Jodhpur, Rajasthan
- Marzia Balzani 25
- 2. Devad5sis and Village Goddesses of North Tamil Nadu
- Hanne M. de Bruin 53
- 3. How to Attain Heaven: The Vdjapeya Sacrificial Ritual
- Karin Steiner 85
- 4. CAkydr Initiation in the Katiydttam Theatre of Kerala:
- The Arariierram Performance
- Botena Sliwczyriska 105
- PART II: THE AUDIENCE: THE INTERPLAY
- BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE
- 5. Empowering Performance: The Choreographic
- Techniques of Uday Shankar
- Joan L Erdman 121
- 6. Between Performance and Competence: Exploring the
- Idea of Audience According to Indian Classical Views
- Mirella Lingorska 151
- 7. The Power of Listening: Giving Meaning to Divine
- Words in Possession Performances
- Elisabeth Schbmbucher 169
- PART III: THE OBSERVER: RECONSIDERING THE
- CATEGORIES OF THE OBSERVER
- 8. The Faculty of the Voice
- Saskia Kersenboom 197
- 9. To Enjoy Playing with Play
- Heike Moser 209
- 10. Embodying the Lion's 'Fury': Ambivalent Animals,
- Activation, and Representation
- Phillip B. Zarrilli 235
- 11. Creating Presence: Performing the Oral Narrative
- of Devnarayan
- Aditya Malik 261.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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