Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hardback Published on: 07/04/2020
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Synopsis

Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict is a groundbreaking ethnographic examination of dance practice in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during the civil war (1983–2009). It is the first book of scholarship on bharata natyam (a classical dance originating in India) in Sri Lanka, and the first on the role of dance in the country’s war. Focusing on women dancers, Ahalya Satkunaratnam shows how they navigated conditions of conflict and a neoliberal, global economy, resisted nationalism and militarism, and advocated for peace. Her interdisciplinary methodology combines historical analysis, methods of dance studies, and dance ethnography.

  • Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
  • ISBN: 9780819578891
  • Number of pages: 200
  • Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm