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Brahmans --- Brahmins --- Caste --- Ethnology --- Hindus --- Social life and customs --- Cœurdoux, Gaston-Laurent, --- Desvaulx, Nicolas-Jacques, --- Cœurdoux, G.-L. --- Cœurdoux, --- India --- Social life and customs.

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chanting --- the Iron Age --- religious communes --- the Maharajah --- history --- the spiritual master --- the Temple --- yoga --- Brahmins --- diet --- hygiene --- dress --- sleep --- the Hare Krishnas --- Krishna --- Hinduism --- the Vedas --- Bhagavad-gita --- A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada --- ISKCON --- ISKCON centers --- Hare Krishna centers

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Drawing on multisited ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis, this book centers on an insular community of Smarta brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India, who are required to don strī-vēṣam (woman's guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. According to the hagiography of Siddhendra, the founding saint of Kuchipudi dance, every brahmin man from a hereditary Kuchipudi family must don strī-vēṣam at least once in his life, a prescription that still resonates in the village today. Impersonation, the term used to indicate the donning of gender guise (vēṣam), is not simply a performative mandate for Kuchipudi brahmin men but also a practice of power that creates normative ideals of brahmin masculinity in village performance and everyday life. However, the construction of brahmin masculinity against the backdrop of impersonation is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian "classical" dance tradition. By shifting from village to urban and transnational spaces, the book traces the technologies of normativity that create, sustain, and undermine normative ideals of gender, caste, and sexuality through the embodied practice of impersonation in contemporary South India.

Brahmans --- Female impersonators --- Gender identity in dance --- Kuchipudi (Dance) --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Dance --- Cross-dressers (Female impersonators) --- Crossdressers (Female impersonators) --- Impersonators, Female --- Impersonators of women --- Persons --- Brahmins --- Caste --- Ethnology --- Hindus --- Kuchipudi Bharatam --- Social life and customs. --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- brahmin to non brahmin. --- female characters. --- gender performance. --- hindu religious narratives. --- impersonation. --- kuchipudi village. --- localized village performance. --- male body. --- masculinity. --- men. --- practice of impersonation. --- smarta brahmin. --- south india. --- stage. --- stri vesham. --- telugu. --- transnational indian dance form. --- village to urban. --- Social Science / Anthropology --- Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology --- History / Asia --- Religion

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