The second presentation of Dr.
Dattaray will be introducing the dance tradition from Karbi Anglong, a hill
‘tribe’ from North East India.
The introductory talk and the
fieldwork documentary clippings of Karbi harvest and funeral related
dances would add substantial bit of visual and
musical information of that colorful ancient tradition. We will see the
intriguing wordless way to convey storytelling in dances and ceremonial
gestures.
The documentary movie is 41
minutes long. It has no subtitles, but the dances and gestures are
self-explanatory. Besides, our dear guest will give all necessary commentary to
her fieldwork visual data.
Debashree Dattaray is
Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata,
India. She is currently a Fulbright Visiting Faculty with the Department of
Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley for Fall 2013. In 2012, she was awarded an Erasmus
Mundus Europe Asia Fellowship for Academic Staff at the University of Amsterdam.
In 2007-08, she was a Fulbright Doctoral and Professional Research Fellow at the
State University of New York, Stony Brook. Her areas of interest and publication
are Indigenous Studies, Gender, Narrative, Oratures and Comparative Indian
Literature Methodology.
The event will
take place at SRH on Saturday, November 30, at 5-7pm.
Silk Road House events are sponsored by the Silkroad
Foundation.
