Contributors

 

Illustrations, film clips and audiofiles

 

Hanne M. de Bruin
Contextualising Women and Performance in India. An Introductory Essay

Peter J. Claus
Reflections on Folk Literary Criticism

Elisabeth Schömbucher
Divine Words, Human Voices: Listening to the Female Voice in Performances of Possession

Heidrun Brückner
Folk Culture and Modernity: The Case of Goddess Reṇukā-Ellamma and her Special Devotees

B. A. Viveka Rai
Gender in Folk Narratives with Special Reference to Tuḷuva-Society, in the West Coast Region of Karnataka, India

Lea Griebl and Sina Sommer
Siri Revisited: A Female ›Mass Possession Cult‹ without Women Performers?

Diane Daugherty
Subhadra Redux: Reinstating Female Kutiyattam

Heike Moser
How Kūṭiyāṭṭam Became ›kūṭi-āṭṭam‹, »Acting Together«, or: The Changing Role of Female Performers in the Naṅṅyār-Kuttu-Traditon of Kerala

Christine Guillebaud
Women’s Musical Knowledge and Power, and their Contributions to Nation-Building in Kerala, South India: A Case Study of Kaikkottukali

Brigitte Schulze
Poetic-Painful Lives of Women-Performers Vis-à-Vis High-Caste Moral Modernity as Remembered by Kamalabai Gokhale, and Retold by Brigitte Schulze

Marlene Pitkow
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Kathakali’s Females and the Men who Play them

Virginie Johan
Actresses on the Temple Stage? The Epic Conception and Performance of Women’s Roles in Kūṭiyāṭṭam Rāmāyaṇa Plays