Performing respectability: The beravā, middle-class nationalism, and the classicization of Kandyan dance in Sri Lanka

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 246-277

  Reed, Susan A ^a  

^a BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036579370     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/can.2002.17.2.246     Document Type: Review

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