Impersonations : The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance
Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis, this book centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India, who are required to don strī-vēṣam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu re...
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Oakland
University of California Press
2019
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