martes, 19 de noviembre de 2013

Karbi Ritual Dances and Ceremonies – An Audio-Visual Insight

The second presentation of Dr. Dattaray will be introducing the dance tradition from Karbi Anglong, a hill ‘tribe’ from North East India.
 
The introductory talk and the fieldwork documentary clippings of Karbi harvest and funeral related dances would add substantial bit of visual and musical information of that colorful ancient tradition. We will see the intriguing wordless way to convey storytelling in dances and ceremonial gestures.
 
The documentary movie is 41 minutes long. It has no subtitles, but the dances and gestures are self-explanatory. Besides, our dear guest will give all necessary commentary to her fieldwork visual data.
 
 Debashree Dattaray is Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Faculty with the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley for Fall 2013. In 2012, she was awarded an Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia Fellowship for Academic Staff at the University of Amsterdam. In 2007-08, she was a Fulbright Doctoral and Professional Research Fellow at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her areas of interest and publication are Indigenous Studies, Gender, Narrative, Oratures and Comparative Indian Literature Methodology.
 
 The event will take place at SRH on Saturday, November 30, at 5-7pm.
 
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