...Devesh Soneji When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses, and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, A South Indian Martial Art . By Phillip A. Zarrilli . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . xxii, 310 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Davesh Soneji Religion and Public Memory: A Cultural History of Saint Namdev in India . By Christian Lee Novetzke . New York : Columbia University Press , 2008 . xxii , 309 pp. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Christian Lee...

...Devesh Soneji 268 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES account Trautmann's masterly presentation of the complexities of the scholarship of the past. PETER VAN DER VEER University of Amsterdam The Sun King's Daughter and King Samvarana: Tapatt-Samvaranam and the Kutiyattam Drama Tradition {Text...

..., legal rights to property, and social position. Soneji's focused study on devadasis also offers a broader picture of class, socioeconomic, and gender disparity in India in the postcolonial era. He demonstrates the cultural relevance of devadasis outside of their position as temple dancers during...

..., with a specific emphasis on the influence and impact of the colonial period. Work on Bharatanatyam, Karnatak and Hindustani music (Peterson and Soneji (2009), Weidman (2006), Subramanian, (2006, 2008), Bhakle, (2005)), have pointed to the re-forming and re-formulation of various performance traditions—elite...

... 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...

... marks would definitely aid the nonspecialist to access the Malayalam vocabulary. Nonetheless, this project is certainly an invaluable contribution to the conscious revisioning the meanings and implications of the body-inpractice and its multifarious transformations in South Asia. DEVESH SONEJI McGill...

..., 580 Sivin, Nathan, 530 Smith, Leonard V., 210 Smith-Hefner, Nancy J., 605 Smits, Gregory, 223 Smyers, Karen A., 226 So, Alvin Y., 853 Soneji, Devesh, 283 Sorensen, Clark W., 1208 Sperling, Elliot, 864 Steinberg, David I., 296 Stephens, Robert J., 1218 Sturman, Rachel, 898 Sur, Abha, 261 Sutter, Robert...

.... Written in a style acceptable and comprehensible to both the novice and specialist, this study explores fully the expressive and interpretative possibilities of text-centered religious performance. DEVESH SONEJI University of Manitoba SOUTHEAST ASIA To Live as Brothers: Southeast Sumatra...

...., 246 Silverberg, Miriam, 874 Sinha, Ajay J., 1215 Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1198 Sivin, Nathan, 486 Smart, Ellen S., 565 Smith, Richard J., 794 So, Alvin Y., 821 Soneji, Devish, 268 Spencer, George W., 1204 Spring, Madeline K., 487 Scolberg, Eva-Maria, 219, 514, 517 Strand, David, 1140 Strecher, Matthew C...

..., this trend remained productive until the present (Soneji 2011 ). It influenced the analysis of identical transformations wrought by colonial-era Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864–88 in various parts of the subcontinent, such as the princely state of Mysore (Nair 1994 ) and the colonial capital, Calcutta...

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