Chapter 4

 

* The author gratefully acknowledges the bibliographic work done by Kumar Ravi Priya and Srividya Subramanium and the indefatigable effort made by Surbhi Sehgal. He also expresses his sincere thanks to Professor Girishwar Misra for his valuable comments and inputs in the preparation of this manuscript.

1. Shiva's circle is used as a metaphor to denote symbolic communication and meanings that help us maintain a cultural life. Shiva is the androgynous Hindu lord of dance and death. A constructivist enquirer enters an interpretive circle and must be faithful to the performance, must both be a part from and part of the dance and must always be rooted to the context.

2. It was a trend in social science disciplines to emulate the practices ...

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