Kandy, Sri Lanka
September 6 and November 6, 2009
Background Resources:
Obeyesekere, Gananath. “The Fire-Walkers of Kataragama: The Rise of Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka,” Journal of Asian Studies 37/3 (1978): 457-476.
Reed, Susan. “Performing Respectability: The Berava, Middle-Class Nationalism, and the Classicization of Kandyan Dance in Sri Lanka,” Cultural Anthropology 17/2 (2002): 246-277.
Reed, Susan. Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. [In particular, pp. 3-15.]