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.

• | : Ahalya Satkunaratnam
• | Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0819578894
• | ISBN-13: 9780819578891