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American Kathaks: Embodying Memory And Tradition In New Contexts, Anisha Muni
American Kathaks: Embodying Memory And Tradition In New Contexts, Anisha Muni
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Kathak, a classical Indian dance, is practiced in the US by hundreds of practitioners. Through ethnographic research, this study asks how nostalgia, authenticity, tradition, and gender meet in the collective Kathak memory, examining what the study and performance of the dance symbolizes within American contexts.