Lecture on the Dangaura Tharu

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Tori Dalzell ?08, Hollins alumna and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Riverside, will speak about the Dangaura Tharu?one of the largest ethnic minorities indigenous to southwestern Nepal and how they seek to position themselves as modern, but culturally distinguished by their long-held traditions such as the sakhya-paiya naach?a religious song-and-dance genre performed primarily by young Dangaura Tharu girls. Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley