Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the ArtsGeoffreyV. Davis Performing Identities brings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities. |
Contents
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Political Insights and Social Values in Two Traditional Narratives | 21 |
A Gem of Oral Tradition | 41 |
PsychoSexual and Religious Significance of Tribal Dance | 62 |
Traditional Value Systems of Lepchas of India and Igbos of Nigeria | 68 |
Notes Towards a Visual History of Adivasi Languages and Literatures | 94 |
P O Bodding and A Santal Dictionary | 109 |
Rituals of a Hill Tribe | 209 |
Exploring 19thCentury San Mythology | 236 |
Tomson Highways The Rez Sisters | 258 |
Reconstruction of Australia through Aboriginal Imagination in Alexis Wrights Carpentaria | 270 |
Politics of Healing in the Narratives of Nyole EthnoMedical Practitioners | 286 |
An Evaluation of Moranic Performances by the Maasai People of Kenya | 306 |
19 Women and Indigenous Resistance in Tess Onwuemes Tell It To Women and What Mama Said | 318 |
20 Tracing PostColonial Questions in Ancient Thought | 344 |
A Case Study from Western OrissaIndia | 119 |
Alexis Wrights Carpentaria and Warwick Thorntons | 126 |
10 The SocioPolitical Imperative of Nigerian Festivals | 142 |
11 Ogoni Dances Masquerades and Worldview | 158 |
Hyphenated Hybridities on the Margins of America | 175 |
Other editions - View all
Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts G. N. Devy,Geoffrey V. Davis,Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty No preview available - 2015 |
Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts G. N. Devy,Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty,Geoffrey V. Davis No preview available - 2017 |
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