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Moving bodies, navigating conflict : practicing bharata natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Ahalya Satkunaratnam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Satkunaratnam, Ahalya, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bharata natyam--Sri Lanka--Colombo.
- Bharata natyam.
- Sri Lanka--History--Civil War, 1983-2009.
- Sri Lanka.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a performance-ethnographic examination of the ways in which dance embodies the physical, emotional, and social landscapes of Sri Lanka's civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the rebel separatists, the Tamil Tigers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Maneuvering identity, shifting nations
- Meaning making : bharata natyam as a transnational practice in translation
- Public aesthetics, public education : the role of the state in art education
- Staging war : choreographic strategies during war
- Shakthi superstar : in search of power and popularity
- Conclusion: Performing peace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780819578914
- 0819578916
- OCLC:
- 1114512949
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