This book provides a critical understanding of dance studies in India, bringing together various embodied practices identified loosely as dance. It suggests an alternative reading of the history of patronage, policies, and institutionalized understanding of categories such as classical, folk, modern, popular, and Bollywood that hierarchizes some dances as ‘more’ dance than others. It is of great interest to scholars looking at performing arts such as dance as a tool for identity a...
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Introduction: All that is Dance.- Bodies that Dance: Critical Frames of Reference.- Understanding Categorisation: The ‘Tribal’ ‘Folk’, and the ‘Classical’ Da...
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Urmimala Sarkar Munsi is a social anthropologist specialized in dance studies and a dancer/choreographer. She is A PROFESSOR AND THE CURRENT DEAN, TEACHING criti...