Awakening A Living World On A Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage

Author : Einat Bar-On Cohen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438496931

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Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage by Einat Bar-On Cohen Pdf

Kūṭiyāṭṭam, an ancient form of Sanskrit theater from Kerala, was traditionally performed only in temples by members of two temple assistant castes. Today, however, it has spread to other castes and to venues outside temples. It is a fantastically complex, sophisticated, layered performance, toiling at amassing and perfecting ways of materializing a world where gods, demons, and mythical heroes live, bringing the audience into these other realities. Taking an anthropological approach, Awakening a Living World on a Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage explores how Kūṭiyāṭṭam uses cultural dynamics, gleaned from temple ritual and theater, to remove the distinctions between mundane reality and the mediaeval plays being performed on stage. The unique features of Kūṭiyāṭṭam—makeup masks, enthralling drumming, delivering words in mudrā gestures, a shimmering lamp, male and female actors—all intertwine to animate stories from the great Indian eposes. Analyzing the cultural dynamics at work in Kūṭiyāṭṭam foregrounds a symbolic anthropology in which representation and symbols are shunned, while endless repetitions fill the stage with reverberating somatic intensities of profound depth. Thus, a new kind of living reality emerges that includes the protagonists of the play—gods, demons, humans, animals, and objects—together with the artist, the audience, and beyond.

Author : Elisa Ganser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004467057

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Theatre and Its Other by Elisa Ganser Pdf

What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta’s thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader.

Author : Kapil Kapoor
Publisher : Jacqui Small
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015063085412

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Sanskrit Studies: Saṁvat 2061-62 (ce 2004-05) by Kapil Kapoor Pdf

This Volume Ranges Over Logic, Grammar, Philosophy, Environment, Aesthetics, Interpretation, Science, Epic-Poetry, India'S Cultural Presence In Asia, And Maintenance Of Texts, And As Such Should Interest Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Languages, Literature, Sciences And Philosophy.

Author : Saïd Amir Arjomand,Stephen Kalberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438483412

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From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond by Saïd Amir Arjomand,Stephen Kalberg Pdf

The post–World War II idea of the Axial Age by Karl Jaspers, and as elaborated into the sociology of axial civilizations by S. N. Eisenstadt in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, continues to be the subject of intense scholarly debate. Examples of this can be found in recent works of Hans Joas and Jürgen Habermas. In From World Religions to Axial Civilizations and Beyond, an internationally distinguished group of scholars discuss, advance, and criticize the Jaspers-Eisenstadt thesis, and go beyond it by bringing in the critical influence of Max Weber's sociology of world religions and by exploring intercivilizational encounters in key world regions. The essays within this volume are of unusual interest for their original analysis of relatively neglected civilizational zones, especially Islam and the Islamicate civilization and the Byzantine civilization, and its continuation in Orthodox Russia.

Author : Reginald Horace Blyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : IND:30000061588228

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Oriental Humour by Reginald Horace Blyth Pdf

Author : Aihwa Ong
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438433547

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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition by Aihwa Ong Pdf

New edition of the classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers. In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become a classic in the fields of anthropology, labor, gender and globalization studies. Based on intensive fieldwork, the book captures a moment of profound transformation for rural Muslim women even as their labor helped launch Malaysia’s rise as a tiger economy. Aihwa Ong’s analysis of the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences that roiled the lives of working women has inspired later generations of feminist ethnographers in their study of power, resistance, religious upheavals, and subject formation in the industrial periphery. With a critical introduction by anthropologist Carla Freeman, this new edition upholds an exemplary model of anthropological inquiry into cultural modes of resistance to the ideology, discipline, and workings of global capitalism. “This work remains powerful for its refusal to over-simplify the complexities of export industrialization as a model for economic development, and for its demonstration of the intimate dialectics of culture, economy, gender, religion, and class, and the meaningfulness of place amid the swirling forces of global capitalism [It] opened up many of the questions that should continue to inspire our analyses of globalization today. Indeed, these questions are equally compelling for the reader returning to this work after twenty years and for the reader new to this text and to the intriguing and complex puzzles of globalization.” — from the Introduction by Carla Freeman

Author : Victor Montejo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438485775

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Mayalogue by Victor Montejo Pdf

In Mayalogue, Native Mayan scholar Victor Montejo provides an alternative reading and interpretation of cultures, challenging Western ethnocentric approaches that have marginalized Native knowledge and worldviews in the past. He proposes instead a methodology for studying culture as a unified whole, a radical departure from the compartmentalized sections of knowledge recognized by Western scientific tradition. Offering a strong critique of traditional anthropological studies, with its terms and categories that have denigrated Indigenous cultures throughout the centuries, Montejo's postcolonial work aims to dismantle the colonialist construction of Indigenous cultures, giving way to a Native approach that balances insider and outsider descriptions of a particular culture. Developed from an Indigenous Maya perspective, Mayalogue is a contribution to the dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students, and general audiences in the social sciences and humanities, and will be an essential text in decolonizing the minds of those who engage in the study of cultures anywhere in the world in the twenty-first century.

Author : Bilinda Straight
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791483770

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Women on the Verge of Home by Bilinda Straight Pdf

This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of historical, literary, and cultural texts, contributors interrogate the comfortable and stable contours of home and ask what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places. Giving voice to diverse women's understandings of home, the book includes stories of elite white U.S. and Canadian women, rural poor and peasant white women in the United States and France, a British Caribbean freed slave woman, and others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791479018

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Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Indic wit and humor
ISBN : 8120805488

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Laughing Matters by Lee Siegel Pdf

Author : Deborah L. Wheeler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791482650

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Internet in the Middle East, The by Deborah L. Wheeler Pdf

A surprising look at how the Internet does, and does not, affect public discourse and social practice in the Middle East and Kuwait in particular.

Author : Herbert A. Applebaum
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887064388

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Perspectives in Cultural Anthropology by Herbert A. Applebaum Pdf

Designed as a reader for courses, this anthology presents an array of theories and interpretations in the field of modern cultural anthropology. It provides a deeper understanding of the major theoretical orientations which have historically guided and currently guide anthropological research.

Author : Akiko Hashimoto,John W. Traphagan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791475786

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Imagined Families, Lived Families by Akiko Hashimoto,John W. Traphagan Pdf

An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture.

Author : Chief Benjamin J. Barnes,Stephen Warren
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438489957

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Replanting Cultures by Chief Benjamin J. Barnes,Stephen Warren Pdf

Replanting Cultures provides a theoretical and practical guide to community-engaged scholarship with Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. Chapters on the work of collaborative, respectful, and reciprocal research between Indigenous nations and colleges and universities, museums, archives, and research centers are designed to offer models of scholarship that build capacity in Indigenous communities. Replanting Cultures includes case studies of Indigenous nations from the Stó:lō of the Fraser River Valley to the Shawnee and Miami tribes of Oklahoma, Ohio, and Indiana. Native and non-Native authors provide frank assessments of the work that goes into establishing meaningful collaborations that result in the betterment of Native peoples. Despite the challenges, readers interested in better research outcomes for the world's Indigenous peoples will be inspired by these reflections on the practice of community engagement.

Author : Rebecca Meyers,William Rothman,Charles Warren
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781438460529

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Looking with Robert Gardner by Rebecca Meyers,William Rothman,Charles Warren Pdf

Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner’s achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema. During his lifetime, Robert Gardner (1925–2014) was often pigeonholed as an ethnographic filmmaker, then criticized for failing to conform to the genre’s conventions—conventions he radically challenged. With the release of his groundbreaking film Dead Birds in 1963, Gardner established himself as one of the world’s most extraordinary independent filmmakers, working in a unique border area between ethnography, the essay film, and poetic/experimental cinema. Richly illustrated, Looking with Robert Gardner assesses the range and magnitude of Gardner’s achievements not only as a filmmaker but also as a still photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema. The contributors give critical attention to Gardner’s most ambitious films, such as Dead Birds (1963, New Guinea), Rivers of Sand (1975, Ethiopia), and Forest of Bliss (1986, India), as well as lesser-known films that equally exemplify his mode of seeking anthropological understanding through artistic means. They also attend to his films about artists, including his self-depiction in Still Journey OnM (2011); to his roots in experimental film and his employment of experimental procedures; and to his support of independent filmmakers through the Harvard Film Study Center and the television series Screening Room, which provided an opportunity for numerous important film and video artists to present and discuss their work. Rebecca Meyers is a filmmaker and Academic Film Programmer at Bucknell University, where she teaches in the Film/Media Studies program. She worked with Robert Gardner as editor on his late films. William Rothman is Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media at the University of Miami. Among his numerous books are three published by SUNY Press: Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze, Second Edition and as editor, Cavell on Film and Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross McElwee, and Jean Rouch. Charles Warren is Lecturer on Film at Boston University and Associate of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University. He writes widely on film and has edited many books, including Gardner’s Making Dead Birds, Just Representations, and Human Documents: Eight Photographers.