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Podcast: New Books in Anthropology
Episode: David Shulman and Heike Oberlin, "Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Description: KÅ«į¹iyÄį¹į¹am, Indiaās only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousandĀ years.Ā David Shulman and Heike Oberlin'sĀ Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and AnguliyankamĀ (Oxford UP, 2019) focuses onĀ MantrÄį¹
kamĀ andĀ Aį¹
gulÄ«yÄį¹
kam, the two great masterpieces of KÅ«į¹iyÄį¹į¹am. It provides fundamental general remarks and relates them to pan-Indian reflections on aesthetics, philology, ritual studies, and history.Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and at his own virtual School of Indian Wisdom. For information seeĀ rajbal...