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Author Satkunaratnam, Ahalya, author.

Title Moving bodies, navigating conflict : practicing bharata natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka / Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Published Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]

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Contents Introduction: Maneuvering identity, shifting nations -- Meaning making : bharata natyam as a transnational practice in translation -- Public aesthetics, public education : the role of the state in art education -- Staging war : choreographic strategies during war -- Shakthi superstar : in search of power and popularity -- Conclusion: Performing peace
Summary "Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a performance-ethnographic examination of the ways in which dance embodies the physical, emotional, and social landscapes of Sri Lanka's civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the rebel separatists, the Tamil Tigers"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2020)
Subject Bharata natyam -- Sri Lanka -- Colombo
Dance -- Social aspects -- Sri Lanka -- Colombo
Ethnicity -- Social aspects -- Sri Lanka -- Colombo
War and society -- Sri Lanka -- Colombo
Bharata natyam
Dance -- Social aspects
Ethnicity -- Social aspects
War and society
SUBJECT Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004003192
Subject Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka -- Colombo
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019049776
ISBN 9780819578914
0819578916