Unfinished gestures : devadāsīs, memory, and modernity in South India / Davesh Soneji.
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TextSeries: South Asia across the disciplinesPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226768113
- 0226768112
- 1283321599
- 9781283321594
- 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
- South India
- Devadāsī
- Indien -- Süd
- Muziek
- Devadasis
- Sociale aspecten
- Zuid-India
- Indien (Süd)
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- BL1237.58.D48 S66 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.
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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