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Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. By Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 215 pp. ISBN: 9780520301665 (paper).

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Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance. By Harshita Mruthinti Kamath. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 215 pp. ISBN: 9780520301665 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2020

Rumya S. Putcha*
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020

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References

1 See, for example, Morelli, SarahA Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Zubko, Katherine C., Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014)Google Scholar.

2 Harshita M. Kamath, “Aesthetics, Performativity, & Performative Māyā: Imagining Gender in the Textual and Performance Traditions of Telugu South India” (PhD diss., Emory University, 2012).

3 Anuradha Jonnalagadda, “Traditions and Innovations in Kuchipudi Dance” (PhD diss., University of Hyderabad, 1996); Davesh Soneji, “Performing Satyabhama: Text, Context, Memory and Mimesis in Telugu-Speaking South India” (PhD diss., McGill University, 2004).