About the Book: Two Masterpieces of Kuttiyattam: Mantrankam and Anguliyankam
This volume focuses on Mantrankam and Anguliyankam that are the two great
masterpieces of Kutiyattam, one of Indias oldest living theatrical traditions.
It provides some fundamental general remarks on the performance of Kutiyattam,
relates it to the pan-Indian reflection on aesthetics, and gives an account of
its development up to the present time. The chapters in the volume are authored
by both scholars versed in this tradition as well as active Kutiyattam
performers in Kerala, which is where it is practised. This is the first attempt
to bring together a set of focused studies of this
masterpiece-in-performance.......
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