Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka - Ahalya Satkunaratnam - Books - Wesleyan University Press - 9780819578907 - April 7, 2020
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Moving Bodies, Navigating Conflict: Practicing Bharata Natyam in Colombo, Sri Lanka

Ahalya Satkunaratnam

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

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.


200 pages, 9 photos

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 7, 2020
ISBN13 9780819578907
Publishers Wesleyan University Press
Pages 200
Dimensions 228 × 153 × 17 mm   ·   288 g