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Dance and the nation: performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka

Susan Anita Reed
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Note on Transliteration and Usage (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • 1. Kohomba Kankariya as Village Ritual (page 23)
  • 2. Performers, Patrons, Dance (page 74)
  • 3. A History of Kandyan Dance, 1875-1948 (page 96)
  • 4. Dance, Ethnicity, and the State (page 128)
  • 5. Performing the Nation: The Berava and Kandyan Dance (page 151)
  • 6. Kohomba Kankariya as Spectacle (page 174)
  • 7. Between Purity and Respectability: Sinhala Women and Kandyan Dance (page 198)
  • Appendix 1: Contents of DVD (page 219)
  • Appendix 2: Criteria for Grading of Kalayatanayas (page 221)
  • Appendix 3: Kohomba Kankariyas Observed, 1987-1988 (page 223)
  • Glossary (page 225)
  • Notes (page 227)
  • References (page 251)
  • Index (page 263)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AQ 83.4 (Fall 2010): 937-940 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40890847
ASE 71.2 (2012): 308-310 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23339404
JAS 70.1 (Feb. 2011): 291-292 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41302275
JAR 67.1 (Spring 2011): 138-139 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41304146
DRJ 43.2 (Winter 2011): 89-92 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/473156/
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Published: c2010
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780299231644 (paper)
Subject
  • Dance & Performance History
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