Performance and knowledge / edited by G. N. Devy and Geoffrey V. Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Devy, G. N., 1950- editor.

Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943-2018, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Key concepts in indigenous studies

Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Research--Methodology.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Research.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 142 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

G. N. Devy is Honorary Professor, Centre for Multidisciplinary Development Research, Dharwad, India, and Chairman, People's Linguistic Survey of India. An award-winning writer and cultural activist, he is known for his 50-volume language survey. He is Founder Director of the Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh in Gujarat, India, and was formerly Professor of English at M.S. University of Baroda. He is the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, Linguapax Prize, Prince Claus Award and Padma Shri. With several books in English, Marathi and Gujarati, he has co-edited (with Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty) Narrating Nomadism: Tales of Recovery and Resistance (2012), Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous (2013), Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts (2014) and The Language Loss of the Indigenous (2016), published by Routledge. Geoffrey V. Davis was Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He was international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch (EACLALS). He co-edited Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Indigeneity and national celebrations in Latin America: performative practices and identity politics

2 Performance in native North America: music and dance

3 Indigenous performing arts in Southeast Asia

4 Performance in Australia, Aotearoa and the Pacific

5 "Theory Coming Through Story": indigenous knowledges and Western academia

6 Performance among adivasis and nomads in India

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 25, 2021).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781000215069

1000215067

9781003105589

1003105580

9781000214987

1000214982

Publisher Number:

40030450734

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