{"id":89,"date":"2016-06-16T18:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/?p=89"},"modified":"2016-07-13T20:12:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:12:21","slug":"in-the-buddhas-back-yard-kandyan-and-low-country-dances-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/uncategorized\/in-the-buddhas-back-yard-kandyan-and-low-country-dances-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Buddha&#8217;s Back Yard: Kandyan and Low Country Dances of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kandy, Sri Lanka<br \/>\nSeptember 6 and November 6, 2009<\/h4>\n<p><b>Background Resources:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"sources\">Obeyesekere, Gananath. &#8220;The Fire-Walkers of Kataragama: The Rise of Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka,&#8221; <cite>Journal of Asian Studies<\/cite> 37\/3 (1978): 457-476.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources\">Reed, Susan. &#8220;Performing Respectability: The <i>Berava<\/i>, Middle-Class Nationalism, and the Classicization of Kandyan Dance in Sri Lanka,&#8221; <cite>Cultural Anthropology<\/cite> 17\/2 (2002): 246-277.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sources\">Reed, Susan. <cite>Dance and the Nation: Performance, Ritual, and Politics in Sri Lanka.<\/cite> Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. [In particular, pp. 3-15.]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 698px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-89-1\" width=\"698\" height=\"524\" poster=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/srilanka.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/srilanka.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/srilanka.mp4\">http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/srilanka.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kandy, Sri Lanka September 6 and November 6, 2009 Background Resources: Obeyesekere, Gananath. &#8220;The Fire-Walkers of Kataragama: The Rise of Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka,&#8221; Journal of Asian Studies 37\/3 (1978): 457-476. Reed, Susan. &#8220;Performing Respectability: The Berava, Middle-Class Nationalism, and the Classicization of Kandyan Dance in Sri Lanka,&#8221; Cultural Anthropology 17\/2 (2002): 246-277. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/uncategorized\/in-the-buddhas-back-yard-kandyan-and-low-country-dances-of-sri-lanka\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the Buddha&#8217;s Back Yard: Kandyan and Low Country Dances of Sri Lanka&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}