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Author:   Heike Oberlin (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Tübingen) ,  David Shulman (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ,  Elena Mucciarelli (Professor, Professor, University of Tubingen)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199483594

ISBN 10:   0199483590
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   11 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword (K.K. Gopalakrishan) Introduction (Heike Oberlin and David Shulman) Opening up 1. Anguliyankam and Mantrankam: Two Wondrous Crest Jewels of Kutiyattam (Sudha Gopalakrishnan) 2. Some Remarks on the Ascaryacu?ama?i: Reflections, Reflexivity, and Wonder (Lyne Bansat-Boudon) Mantrankam 3. Mantrankam, an Ancient Integration Project? Its Structure and Composition (Heike Oberlin) 4. What is Mantrankam? (David Shulman) 5. Pracchana Barhaspatyam: Irony and Illusion, Reality, Reflection, and Play in Mantrankam (Orly Hadani Nave) 6. Reflection and Arul: Creating Siva on the Kutiyattam Stage (Hemdat Salay) 7. Vasantaka: Personal Considerations from within the Practice (Indu G.) 8. Mantrankam: An Arena for Experimentation (Elena Mucciarelli) 9. The Mantrankam Paribhasa from a Historical Linguistics Perspective (Ophira Gamliel) 10. Tying the Universe: The Interplay of Veda and Kutiyattam with special reference to Mantrankam (Elena Mucciarelli and Heike Oberlin) Anguliyankam 11. Anguliyankam, Ramayana-Veda of the Cakyars (Virginie Johan) 12. Anguliyankam: The Natyaveda of Kutiyattam (Bhadra P.K.M. and Rajneesh B.) 13. The World of Hanuman: Creating a Fluid Cosmos on a Kerala Kutiyattam Stage (Einat Bar-On Cohen) 14. Distinct Conventions in the Staging of Anguliyankam Kuttu (Ammannur Kuttan Chakyar and Aparna Nangiar) Tying up 15. My Experience of Performing Anguliyankam and Mantrankam (Madhu Margi Chakyar) 16. Knowing and Being: Kutiyattam and Its Semantic Universe (Manu V. Devadevan) 17. An Actor in Red and White: The Cakyar Community and the Early Manipravalam Corpus (Sivan Goren Arzony) Note on the Contributors Index

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Heike Oberlin is associate professor, Department of Indology, University of Tübingen, Germany. David Shulman is professor emeritus, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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