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Over-Ritualization of Performance: Western Discourses on Kutiyattam
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 50, Number 2 (T 190), Summer 2006
- pp. 136-153
- Article
- Additional Information
Making erroneous assumptions about the role of religious devotion in kutiyattam and misapprehending the historical and social contexts of the form, some Western scholars have overemphasized the importance of ritual while excluding or distorting the significance of the rich aesthetic techniques and conventions of the genre.