Folk Performances and the European Gaze in Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

Cultural anthropologists acknowledge the primacy of the spectator’s gaze in assigning hierarchical space to performances within the public sphere. Equations of power and transactions between agents of performance and the consumer or between the language of the entitled spectator and subject perform...

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Main Author: Sarottama Majumdar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2022-12-01
Series:Linguaculture
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Online Access:https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/314