Archipelago Archives Exhibit #3: If I could set with the sun GUIDE BOOK | Page 20

Travelling with linguistic
anthropologist Dr Saskia
Kersenboom on her YATRA
residency in January 2017, Kiran
undertook a ‘live archeology’
of the temple dance and music
ritual traditions along the Kaveri
delta region.
This ‘live archeology’ of the
melakara and devadasi arts
of ritual music and dance
respectively, threw much needed
light on the modern ‘invention of
tradition’ by post-Independent
India.
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