Performing Identities Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts [Hardcover]

Performing Identitiesbrings together essays by scholars, artists and activists engaged in understanding and conserving rapidly disappearing local knowledge forms of indigenous communities across continents. It depicts the imaginative transactions evident in the interface of identity and cultural transformation, raising the issue of cultural rights of these otherwise marginalized communities.

Introduction K.K. Chakravarty. 1.The Hyena Wears Darkness: Stories as Teaching Tools Pia Thielmann2.Reading Folktales Juxtapositionally: Embedded Political Insights and Implied Social Value Systems in Two Traditional (Khoekhoe And Khasi) Narratives Annie Gagiano 3.Kissa  Heer: A Gem of Oral Tradition Charu Chitra4.Magical Rhythms: Psycho-Sexual and Religious Significance of Tribal Dance Mini John5.Foregrounding the Margin: Socio-Cultural Gender-Friendly Traditions of the Lepchas of North-East India and the Igbos of South-East Nigeria Shreya Bhattacharji6.Charting the Multiple Scripts Of Santali: Notes Towards a Visual History of Adivasi Languages and Literatures Nishaant Choksi7.Translating Identity as Lexicon: P.O. Bodding and A Santal DictionaryIvy Imogene Hansdak8.Marginalised Music : A Case Study from Western Orissa/India Lidia Guzy9.Storying Sovereignty and Sustainable Self-Determination in Alexis Wrights Carpentaria and Warwick Thorntons Samson and Delilah Julie Mullaney10.The Socio-Political Imperative of Festivals in a Contested Space: The Examples of the Okiroro (Awan-Okere) and Agbassa Idju Festivals of Warri, Nigeria Alero Uwawah and Israel Meriomame Wekpe11.Ogoni Dances, Masquerades and Worldview Barinló¬