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Mora, Amalia Clarice.

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Dancing Where the River Meets the Sea: Ambiguous Sensuality and Liminal Cultural Geographies in Goa, India.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Dancing Where the River Meets the Sea: Ambiguous Sensuality and Liminal Cultural Geographies in Goa, India./
作者:	Mora, Amalia Clarice.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	364 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-02A(E).
標題:	Music. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10159991
ISBN:	9781369149180

Dancing Where the River Meets the Sea: Ambiguous Sensuality and Liminal Cultural Geographies in Goa, India.
Mora, Amalia Clarice.

Dancing Where the River Meets the Sea: Ambiguous Sensuality and Liminal Cultural Geographies in Goa, India. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 364 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2016.

This dissertation concerns the performance of cultural heritage by female dancers on tour boats in Goa, India, at the Goa Boat Center (GBC). Tourism is the most rapidly growing industry in the former Portuguese enclave of Goa, which continues to attract an increasing number of visitors each year and has recently witnessed an influx of migrants, many of whom end up working in the tourism sector. Although the tourism industry has not yet fully capitalized on cultural tourism, government-affiliated institutions such as the GBC have begun to strategically market Goan traditions as heritage. These efforts have resulted in struggles over both the significance of Goan culture and the status of female performers in this regard. This dissertation reveals how tourism in Goa thus functions as a site for the reconfiguration of narratives on Goa, female sexuality, and womanhood more generally, both on an individual and an institutional level.

ISBN: 9781369149180Subjects--Topical Terms:

516178
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520 $a While public discourse in India tends to depict the nation and its people as traditional, Goa is typically presented as a state characterized by a "modern" cultural openness and moral looseness, qualities that are attributed to the long-lasting Portuguese colonial influence (1510-1961). Using discourse analysis, I trace how these ideas are given new currency in popular media such as tourism advertisements and Bollywood films, which I argue help to portray travel to Goa as a rite of passage allowing young domestic tourists to explore their modern selfhood. I also show how these media, which I consider as travel narratives, have helped to engender the idea that women in Goa are sexually promiscuous, an image that strongly contrasts with the notion of female respectability central to Indian traditional modernity. This impression greatly impacts how the female tour boat dancers are perceived by visitors from elsewhere in India and by Goan society. The morally ambiguous status of the tour boat dancers is compounded by the fact that in India, lower-caste female performers have tended to be associated with prostitution.
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