Dancing Bare Feet And Sitting Cross-legged: South-Asian Movement Practice And Anthropology Of The Body
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2025
Published In
Embodied Pedagogies In The Study Of Religion: Transforming The Classroom
Abstract
As an anthropologist and a Kathak dancer engaged for decades in connecting theory and practice, my classrooms are somatic sites for embodied ways of knowing. My pedagogical philosophy has taken shape collaboratively with my students in my classes where they get direct exposure to the multidimensionality of our sensory universe: sound, movement, kinesthetic, textual, and visual. The class activities are not just centered on the textual immanence of language, and detached reasoning but on perception. Through experiential and analytical learning and inquiry, we explore bodily ways of knowing where thoughts are not isolated from emotions. In this chapter, I will explore how knowledge is transmitted, created, and expressed in my Kathak studio classes that connect the bodily discipline of dance with critical inquiry.
Published By
Routledge
Editor(s)
S. Borkataky-Varma and S. Levy-Brightman
Recommended Citation
Pallabi Chakravorty.
(2025).
"Dancing Bare Feet And Sitting Cross-legged: South-Asian Movement Practice And Anthropology Of The Body".
Embodied Pedagogies In The Study Of Religion: Transforming The Classroom.
131-142.
DOI: 10.4324/9781032685304-14
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-dance/166