3 Citations
Dance, Pleasure and Indian Women as Multisensorial Subjects
- Art, Sociology
- 2004
This article uses an experiential approach to analyze the embodied aesthetics of classical Indian dance. This approach is fundamentally different from the dominant Western epistemologies of visual…
India's "Hundred Voices": Subaltern Oral Performance in Forster's A Passage to India
- Art
- 2002
Both within and without oral studies, scholars have begun to examine the intimate relations between what have seemed to some strange bedfellows: oral theory and critical theory. Mark C. Amodio has…
In Whose Turban Does the Lord Reside?: The Objectification of Charisma and the Fetishism of Objects in the Hindu Kingdom of Kota
- SociologyComparative Studies in Society and History
- 1991
The shiny, black stone statue of Shri Nathji that today resides in the busy pilgrimage town of Nathdvara (Rajasthan, India) is the preeminent image of the Vaisnava sect of the Vallabha Sampradaya.…