Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India /

'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soneji, Devesh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Colección:South Asia across the disciplines.
Temas:
Devadāsīs > India, South.
Devadāsīs > India, South > Social conditions.
Dance > Social aspects > India, South.
Prostitution > India, South.
Social change > India, South.
Devadāsī > Inde (Sud)
Devadāsī > Inde (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Danse > Aspect social > Inde (Sud)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
Dance > Social aspects
Devadāsīs
Devadāsīs > Social conditions
Prostitution
Social change
Devadāsī
Muziek.
Devadasis.
Sociale aspecten.
South India
Indien > Süd
Zuid-India.
Indien (Süd)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Historical, Social, and Aesthetic Borderlands; 1. Producing Dance in Colonial Tanjore; 2. Whatever Happened to the South Indian Nautch? Toward a Cultural History of Salon Dance in Madras; 3. Subterfuges of "Respectable" Citizenship: Marriage and Masculinity in the Discourse of Devadasi Reform; 4. Historical Traces and Unfinished Subjectivity: Remembering Devadasi Dance at Viralimalai; 5. Performing Untenable Pasts: Aesthetics and Selfhood in Coastal Andhra Pradesh; Coda: Gesturing to Devadasi Pasts in Today's Chennai.
  • Appendix 1: Selected Documents from the Files of Muthulakshmi ReddyAppendix 2: The Madras Devadasis (Prevention of Dedication) Act of 1947; Notes; References; Index.

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