{"product_id":"impersonations-9780520972230","title":"Impersonations","description":"\u003cb\u003eLearn more at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.luminosoa.org\/site\/books\/10.1525\/luminos.72\/\"\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. ","brand":"Harshita Mruthinti Kamath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48200206614779,"sku":"9780520972230","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_994789a6-8cef-44ed-9356-997b942932cc.jpg?v=1770690982","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/impersonations-9780520972230","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}