Title Dance and the nation : performance, ritual, and politics in Sri Lanka / Susan A. Reed

Published Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2010] ©2010

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MELB	792.809 Soc/Sid	2010	AVAILABLE

Description xv, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm + 1 DVD Series Studies in dance history Studies in dance history. Contents 1. Kohomba kankariya as village ritual -- 2. Performers, patrons, dance -- 3. A history of Kandyan dance, 1875-1948 -- 4. Dance, ethnicity, and the state -- 5. Performing the nation : the berava and Kandyan dance -- 6. Kohomba kankariya as spectacle -- 7. Between purity and respectability : Sinhala women and Kandyan dance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Dance -- Sri Lanka -- Kandy Region Dance -- Political aspects -- Sri Lanka. Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Ethnic identity. SUBJECT Sri Lanka http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80061039 -- Cultural policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005456 Genre/Form Video recordings. LC no. 2009008144 ISBN 978029923164 (paperback: alk. paper) 029923164X (paperback: alk. paper)

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