Two Masterpieces of Kutiyattam

David Shulman is Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Heike Oberlin is Associate Professor, Department of Indology, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam:
Mantrankam and Anguliyakam

Heike Oberlin & David Shulman
(in cooperation with Elena Mucciarelli)

Delhi: Oxford University Press
2019



Table of Contents

Introduction (Heike Oberlin & David Shulman)

Preface (K.K. Gopalakrishan)



Opening up
* A?gul?y??kam and Mantr??kam: Two Wondrous Crest Jewels of K??iy???am (Sudha Gopalakrishnan)
* Some Remarks on the ??caryac???ma?i: Reflections, Reflexivity and Wonder (Lyne Bansat-Boudon)

Mantr??kam
* Mantr??kam, an Ancient Integration Project? Its Structure and Composition (Heike Oberlin)
* What is Mantr??kam? (David Shulman)
* Pracchana B?rhaspatyam: Irony and Illusion, Reality, Reflection and Play in Mantr??kam (Orly Hadani Nave)
* Reflection and Aru?: Creating ?iva on the K??iya??am Stage (Hemdat Salay)
* Vasantaka: Personal Considerations from Within the Practice (Indu G.)
* Mantr??kam: An Arena for Experimentation (Elena Mucciarelli)
* The Mantr??kam Paribh??a from a Historical Linguistics Perspective (Ophira Gamliel)
* Tying the Universe: The Interplay of Veda and K??iy???am with special reference to Mantr??kam (Elena Mucciarelli & Heike Oberlin)

A?gul?ya?kam
* A?gul?y??kam, R?m?ya?a-Veda of the C?ky?rs (Virginie Johan)
* A?gul?y??kam: The N??yaveda of K??iy???am (Bhadra P.K.M. & Rajneesh B.)
* The World of Hanum?n: Creating a Fluid Cosmos on a Kerala K??iy???am Stage (Einat Bar-On Cohen)
* Distinct Conventions in the Staging of A?gul?y??kam K?ttu (Ammannur Kuttan Chakyar & Aparna Nangiar)

Tying up
* My Experience of Performing A?gul?y??kam and Mantr??kam (Madhu Margi Chakyar)
* Knowing and Being: K?t?iya???am and its Semantic Universe (Manu V. Devadevan)
* An Actor in Red and White: The C?ky?r Community and the Early Ma?ipr?va?am Corpus (Sivan Goren)


Note on the Contributors