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Summer 2006
June 01 2006
Over-Ritualization of Performance: Western Discourses on Kutiyattam
Mundoli Narayanan
Mundoli Narayanan
Mundoli Narayanan is on leave from his tenured position at the Department of English, University of Calicut, India, and has been an Assistant Professor of Literature at Miyazaki International College, Japan, since 2001.
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Mundoli Narayanan
Mundoli Narayanan is on leave from his tenured position at the Department of English, University of Calicut, India, and has been an Assistant Professor of Literature at Miyazaki International College, Japan, since 2001.
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He has been documenting kuttiyattam and kathakali in association with the Centre for the Documentation of Performing Arts, Killimangalam, Kerala, and with VEDIKA, Thrissur, a charitable trust for the preservation of the traditional performing arts of Kerala. He codirected VEDIKA's Kathakali: Kottayam Plays, International DVD Edition (2005), a set of eight DVDs.
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2006
TDR/The Drama Review (2006) 50 (2 (190)): 136–153.
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Mundoli Narayanan; Over-Ritualization of Performance: Western Discourses on Kutiyattam. TDR/The Drama Review 2006; 50: 2 (190), 136–153. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.2.136
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