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SUBMITTED BY: WAJIHA MUSKAN.

REGISTRATION NO: 2019-B.Anthro-023.

COURSE TITLE: Anthropology of Myth, Ritual and Symbolism.

INSTRUCTOR: DR. SHAFIA AZAM.

DEPARTMENT: ANTHROPOLOGY (VI).

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 27 JUNE, 2022.

FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY.

Performing Arts, Re-forming Rituals: Women and Social Change in South
India (Vasudha Narayanan).
On Sunday mornings, at a time quite standard for TV viewing, Jaya TV, a preferred channel in
South Republic of India, presents a show known as Thaka dhimi tha. The title of the show refers
to the syllables used for measured steps in Bharata Natyam, a variety of classical South Indian
dance. The dances were enacted against a background of an oversized floor-to-ceiling illustration
of a performing arts Shiva called Nataraja, the Lord of the Dance. The dances enclosed praise
and adoration to numerous deities, together with Ganesha. This song expressed Mira’s love and
fervour for lord Krishna, and in the refrain she sang about the chiming of her anklets to the music
and dance. The program showcases a justifiable pride in classical dancing and Hindu culture. It
had been formed by Radhika Shurajit, a dancer and creator World Health Organization is
creating this classical Bharata Natyam kind standard among youngsters and an oversized TV
audience, and also the show was still running once this book visited press in 2006. At intervals
the Hindu traditions, religion, art, and culture typically merge seamlessly, and definitely
programs like these build United States question the synthetic lines between disciplines in
Western domain. However additional necessary, what we have a tendency to square measure
watching here is that the transition of dance from temples, courts, and personal homes to the
general public sphere and also the transition of what girls bear in mind to be authority within the
re-formation and also the reconfiguration of rituals. In classical dance performances within us,
one specifically sees a yearning for the temple as a background and because the frame for the
dances. In 2001, for example, there was a scintillating dance performance, Saptapadi (‘‘seven
steps,’’ a term that normally refers to the seven religious ceremony steps taken by the bride and
groom in an exceedingly wedding ceremony This. chapter explores the expression of women’s
religiousness through classical music and dance publically forums in South Republic of India.
Straddling the fuzzy boundaries among faith, culture, and amusement. The inclusion of the fields
of music and dance underscores quite making the chance for the entry of ladies into the realm of
the arts; it acknowledges the efforts of ladies World Health Organization created it attainable for
others to in public specific their devotion and non-secular desire in ways in which weren't out
there to them earlier.