Two masterpieces of Kūṭiyāṭṭam : Mantrāṅkam and Aṅgulīyāṅkam / edited by Heike Oberlin and David Shulman.

"Kūṭiyāṭṭam, India's only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. The actors and drummers create an entire world in the empty space of the stage by using spectacular costumes and make-up and by an immensely rich interpl...

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Other Authors: Oberlin, Heike (Editor), Shulman, David Dean, 1949- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Aṅgulīyāṅkam and Mantrāṅkam: two wondrous crest jewels of Kūṭiyāṭṭam / Sudha Gopalakrishnan
  • Some remarks on the Āścaryacūḍāmaṇi: reflections, reflexivity, and wonder / Jyne Bansat-Boudon
  • Mantrāṅkam, an ancient integration project?: its structure and composition / Heike Oberlin
  • What is Mantrāṅkam? / David Shulman
  • Pracchana Bārhaspatyam: irony and illusion, reality, reflection, and play in Mantrāṅkam / Orly Hadani Nave
  • Reflection and Aruḷ: creating Śiva on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam stage / Hemdat Salay
  • Vasantaka: personal considerations from within the practice / Indu G.
  • Mantrāṅkam: an arena for experimentation / Elena Mucciarelli
  • The Mantrāṅkam Paribhāṣa from a historical linguistics perspective / Ophira Gamliel
  • Tying the universe: the interplay of Veda and Kūṭiyāṭṭam with special reference to Mantrāṅkam / Elena Mucciarelli, Heike Oberlin
  • Aṅgulīyāṅkam, Rāmāyaṇa-Vēda of the Cākyārs / Virginie Johan
  • Aṅgulīyāṅkam: the Nāṭyaveda of Kūṭiyāṭṭam / P.K.M. Bhadra, Rajneesh B.
  • The world of Hanumān: creating a fluid cosmos on a Kerala Kūṭiyāṭṭam stage / Einat Bar-On Cohen
  • Distinct conventions in the staging of Aṅgulīyāṅkam Kūttu / Ammannur Kuttan Chakyar, Aparna Nangiar
  • My experience of performing Aṅgulīyāṅkam and Mantrāṅkam / Margi Madhu Chakyar
  • Knowing and being: Kūṭiyāṭṭam and its semantic universe / Manu V. Devadevan
  • An actor in red and white: the Cākyār community and the early Maṇiprāvaḷam corpus / Sivan Goren Arzony.