Dancing the self: personhood and performance in the Pandav Lila of Garhwal/
William S. Sax.
- New York: Oxford University press, 2002.
- viii, 224 p. : ill. , maps ; 24 cm.
Introduction: The Performative Construction of the Self -- Prologue: The Mahabharata Story -- 1. The Sutol Pandav Lila -- 2. The Dance of the Cowherd: Pandav Lila as a Regional Tradition -- 3. Hunting the Rhinoceros: Pandav Lila as a Man's Sport -- 4. A Theater of Hegemony: Pandav Lila as a Rajput Tradition -- 5. Violent Women: Draupadi and Kunti in the Pandav Lila -- 6. A Divine King in the Western Himalayas -- 7. The Hall of Mirrors: Orientalism, Anthropology, and the "Other."