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Sebastian, Rodney.

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Cultural Fusion in a Religious Dance Drama: Building the Sacred Body in the Manipuri Raslilas.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Cultural Fusion in a Religious Dance Drama: Building the Sacred Body in the Manipuri Raslilas./
作者:	Sebastian, Rodney.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
面頁冊數:	338 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-05A.
標題:	Religion. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28289340
ISBN:	9798691292996

Cultural Fusion in a Religious Dance Drama: Building the Sacred Body in the Manipuri Raslilas.
Sebastian, Rodney.

Cultural Fusion in a Religious Dance Drama: Building the Sacred Body in the Manipuri Raslilas. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 338 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2019.

From the 18th century, in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur, Hindu religious themes, especially from Bengal Vaiṣṇava traditions fused with indigenous Meitei religious practices to produce culturally hybrid rituals, performances and festivals. The Manipuri raslila dance drama is one of the effects of this religious and cultural contact. Since the 1780s, Manipuri raslilas have been a central form of ritual worship and entertainment for the majority ethnic group known as the Meiteis. Based on a study of the court chronicles of Manipur, ethnographic research of local performances and interviews with artistes and scholars, I examine the origin, development, and structure of the raslilas. I study the Manipuri raslilas with respect to the flow of theology, sociopolitical structures, ritual practices and aesthetics through fluid cultural boundaries in the 18th century. I argue that in the 18th century, Manipuri agents headed by King Bhagyacandra sought to convert Manipur to a Gauḍiya Vaiṣṇava state in order to forge an alliance with the Vaiṣṇava Ahom (Assamese) kingdom to repel external political threats from Burma. They selected specific aspects of the Gauḍiya tradition which already existed in their indigenous religious practices and which they could accept and transform in ways that resonated with their indigenous cultural knowledge, or the Meitei habitus. They transformed the Meitei religious habitus through innovative reformulations of social structures and religious practices to provide an indigenous aesthetic framework for a hybrid Manipuri Vaiṣṇavism, reflected in, and reproduced by the Manipuri raslilas.

ISBN: 9798691292996Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Cultural Fusion

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