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INTRODUCTION Heidrun Briickner and Elisabeth Schbmbucher 7 PART I: THE PERFORMER: POWER AND PRESENCE IN THE ENACTMENT OF THE PERFORMER 1. Spectacle and Power in the Organization of Kingly Ritual: The Case of Jodhpur, Rajasthan Marzia Balzani 25 2. Devad5sis and Village Goddesses of North Tamil Nadu Hanne M. de Bruin 53 3. How to Attain Heaven: The Vdjapeya Sacrificial Ritual Karin Steiner 85 4. CAkydr Initiation in the Katiydttam Theatre of Kerala: The Arariierram Performance Botena Sliwczyriska 105 PART II: THE AUDIENCE: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE 5. Empowering Performance: The Choreographic Techniques of Uday Shankar Joan L Erdman 121 6. Between Performance and Competence: Exploring the Idea of Audience According to Indian Classical Views Mirella Lingorska 151 7. The Power of Listening: Giving Meaning to Divine Words in Possession Performances Elisabeth Schbmbucher 169 PART III: THE OBSERVER: RECONSIDERING THE CATEGORIES OF THE OBSERVER 8. The Faculty of the Voice Saskia Kersenboom 197 9. To Enjoy Playing with Play Heike Moser 209 10. Embodying the Lion's 'Fury': Ambivalent Animals, Activation, and Representation Phillip B. Zarrilli 235 11. Creating Presence: Performing the Oral Narrative of Devnarayan Aditya Malik 261