Akhila Vimal C
Biographic Data
| ID | 4521734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akhila Vimal C |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akhila C |
| FAMILY NAME | Vimal |
| SIGNATURE | C A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6648-9246 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing Disfiguration: Pain, Affect and Staging of Relationalities in Performances
Performing Disfiguration: Pain, Affect and Staging of Relationalities in Performances
Ritual: Problematizing Real Blood
Bleeding Foreheads: Divine and healing bodies in the rituals and performances of Keralam
Undertaking a study on the ritual-healing performances, namely Kodungallur Bharani and Chottanikkara Verpadu, of Keralam, this paper contextualizes blood as a ‘form’ and ‘content’ of the performances. Bleeding bodies of both these practices expose the complex spectacle of real blood and real body mutilation. In both these practices, the mutilated body in a deranged state of trance and possession indicates a strong visual representation of pain an…
Politics and Poetics of Syncretism: Case Studies of the Bonbibi Cult, the Mappila Teyyam Performances, and Three Poems of the Bhakti Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent
The concept of syncretism has often been at the receiving end of much scholarly criticism and scrutiny. In this article, we explore the politics and poetics of Hindu-Muslim syncretism in select cultural traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Poulomi investigates the religious ecosystem of the Bonbibi cult of Sundarbans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Akhila studies the ritual healing practice of Teyyam in the North Malabar region of…
Prosthetic rasa: Dance on wheels and challenged kinesthetics
This paper analyses Bharatanatyam on Wheels by Ability Unlimited Foundation, Delhi. It interrogates the possibilities and challenges that disability performance presents to codifications in the form and grammar of Bharatanatyam, a ‘classical’ dance form of India. The Indian classical scriptures of performance define a dancer as the ‘perfect-bodied one’. While closely analysing the taxonomy in the classical texts and the critical analyses of the p…
Les mythologies a travers le monde
Class and Opportunity in Europe and the U.S. Some Myths and What the Statistics Show
Politics and Poetics of Syncretism: Case Studies of the Bonbibi Cult, the Mappila Teyyam Performances, and Three Poems of the Bhakti Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent
The concept of syncretism has often been at the receiving end of much scholarly criticism and scrutiny. In this article, we explore the politics and poetics of Hindu-Muslim syncretism in select cultural traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Poulomi investigates the religious ecosystem of the Bonbibi cult of Sundarbans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Akhila studies the ritual healing practice of Teyyam in the North Malabar region of…
Class and Opportunity in Europe and the U.S. Some Myths and What the Statistics Show
Class and Opportunity in Europe and the U.S. Some Myths and What the Statistics Show
Les mythologies a travers le monde
Prosthetic rasa: Dance on wheels and challenged kinesthetics
This paper analyses Bharatanatyam on Wheels by Ability Unlimited Foundation, Delhi. It interrogates the possibilities and challenges that disability performance presents to codifications in the form and grammar of Bharatanatyam, a ‘classical’ dance form of India. The Indian classical scriptures of performance define a dancer as the ‘perfect-bodied one’. While closely analysing the taxonomy in the classical texts and the critical analyses of the p…
Politics and Poetics of Syncretism: Case Studies of the Bonbibi Cult, the Mappila Teyyam Performances, and Three Poems of the Bhakti Tradition from the Indian Subcontinent
The concept of syncretism has often been at the receiving end of much scholarly criticism and scrutiny. In this article, we explore the politics and poetics of Hindu-Muslim syncretism in select cultural traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Poulomi investigates the religious ecosystem of the Bonbibi cult of Sundarbans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Akhila studies the ritual healing practice of Teyyam in the North Malabar region of…
Bleeding Foreheads: Divine and healing bodies in the rituals and performances of Keralam
Undertaking a study on the ritual-healing performances, namely Kodungallur Bharani and Chottanikkara Verpadu, of Keralam, this paper contextualizes blood as a ‘form’ and ‘content’ of the performances. Bleeding bodies of both these practices expose the complex spectacle of real blood and real body mutilation. In both these practices, the mutilated body in a deranged state of trance and possession indicates a strong visual representation of pain an…
Performing Disfiguration: Pain, Affect and Staging of Relationalities in Performances
Performing Disfiguration: Pain, Affect and Staging of Relationalities in Performances
Ritual: Problematizing Real Blood
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