{"product_id":"impersonations-harshita-mruthinti-kamath-9780520301665","title":"Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eLearn more at www.luminosoa.org.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance\u003c\/i\u003e centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don \u003ci\u003estri-vesam\u003c\/i\u003e (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in \u003ci\u003estri-vesam\u003c\/i\u003e is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries--village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative--to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harshita Mruthinti Kamath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520301668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520301665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Harshita Mruthinti Kamath","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919961063679,"sku":"9780520301665","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c2ad6bd7-df11-43fc-af5d-22ccf484bdaa.jpg?v=1680812859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impersonations-harshita-mruthinti-kamath-9780520301665","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}