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31 produkter
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Av Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner
Inbunden, 2012
1979 kr
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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life - dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions …
Turning the Tune
Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Av Adam Kaul
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad. The author focuses on a small village in County Clare, which became a kind …
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Inbunden, 2013
1979 kr
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Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state funding withdrawn, …
Learning Senegalese Sabar
Dancers and Embodiment in New York and Dakar
Av Eleni Bizas
Inbunden, 2014
1979 kr
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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed …
Dancing Cultures
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Av Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, Jonathan Skinner
Häftad, 2014
543 kr
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Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions …
Dance Circles
Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal
Häftad, 2015
543 kr
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Senegal has played a central role in contemporary dance due to its rich performing traditions, as well as strong state patronage of the arts, first under French colonialism and later in the postcolonial era. In the 1980s, when the Senegalese economy was in decline and state fundingwithdrawn, …
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Inbunden, 2016
1936 kr
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Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why "first world" men and women leave behind their …
Choreographies of Landscape
Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park
Inbunden, 2016
1979 kr
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As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and …
Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances
The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance
Inbunden, 2016
1936 kr
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Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed—and consumed—throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book charts the evolution of odissi …
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Av Evangelos Chrysagis, Panas Karampampas
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices …
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance, and Belonging in EU Romania
Av Ioana Szeman
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union's most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on "performance" broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter's settlement in …
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics, and Oral Poetry
Inbunden, 2017
2209 kr
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Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary; 1774-1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts …
Lullabies and Battle Cries
Music, Identity and Emotion among Republican Parading Bands in Northern Ireland
Inbunden, 2018
1979 kr
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Set against a volatile political landscape, Irish republican culture has struggled to maintain continuity with the past, affirm legitimacy in the present, and generate a sense of community for the future. Lullabies and Battle Cries explores the relationship between music, emotion, memory, and …
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Inbunden, 2019
1921 kr
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The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions …
Staging Citizenship
Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania
Av Ioana Szeman
Häftad, 2020
516 kr
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Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on “performance” broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in …
Collaborative Intimacies in Music and Dance
Anthropologies of Sound and Movement
Av Evangelos Chrysagis, Panas Karampampas
Häftad, 2020
526 kr
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Across spatial, bodily, and ethical domains, music and dance both emerge from and give rise to intimate collaboration. This theoretically rich collection takes an ethnographic approach to understanding the collective dimension of sound and movement in everyday life, drawing on genres and practices …
Perspectives in Motion
Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music
Inbunden, 2021
1979 kr
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Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of …
In Search of Legitimacy
How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition
Häftad, 2021
543 kr
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Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition. In Search of Legitimacy explores why “first world” men and women leave behind their …
Singing Ideas
Performance, Politics and Oral Poetry
Häftad, 2021
606 kr
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Considered by many to be the greatest Irish song poet of her generation, Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O’Leary; 1774–1848) was an illiterate woman unconnected to elite literary and philosophical circles who powerfully engaged the politics of her own society through song. As an oral arts …
Perspectives in Motion
Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music
Häftad, 2024
526 kr
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Focusing on visual approaches to performance in global cultural contexts, Perspectives in Motion explores the work of Adrienne L. Kaeppler, a pioneering researcher who has made a number of interdisciplinary contributions over five decades to dance and performance studies. Through a diverse range of …
Market and Monastery
Capitalism in Manangi Trade Diaspora
Inbunden, 2025
1861 kr
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In the established historiography of trade in Asia, the emergence of Western trading empires invariably triggered the decline and dispersal of old trading networks. In this transregional ethnographic history of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck …
Towards a British Natyam
Creating a British Classical Indian Dance Tradition
Inbunden, 2025
2186 kr
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The story of the emerging professionalization of classical Indian dance forms in Britain is wrought with contradictions. Though becoming increasingly popular within mainstream culture, the forms lack the clear routes to vocational training so essential for creating a dance career in the traditional …
Children Dancing in Bali
Practice, Performance, and Power
Inbunden, 2025
1979 kr
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The question of power and agency between children and adults within the context of traditional Balinese dance remains multilayered. While adults exercise authority over children in formal settings, an alternative dynamic exists outside the confines of traditional performance contexts where children …
Spirit of Affect
Song-Dance Encounters in Matrilineal Congo
Inbunden, 2026
1936 kr
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In rural Punu communities, song and dance are profoundly relational and affective practices, generated ever anew through ritual encounters among humans and with more-than-human beings. In this ethnography, the author immerses the reader into the rhythms of resonance, attunement and amplification …
Sliding Worlds
Reflections on the Taipei Dance Circle
Av Yu-Chun Chen
Inbunden, 2026
1918 kr
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Famous for its ‘Modern Dance on Baby Oil’, the Taipei Dance Circle (1984–2019) changed how we think about movements. This book captures a rare behind-the-scenes look in dance ethnography at the group's final experimental years (2014-2017) after losing their founder, Shaw-Lu Liu. During this chaotic …
24 Bars to Kill
Hip Hop, Aspiration, and Japan's Social Margins
Häftad, 2026
349 kr
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The most clearly identifiable and popular form of Japanese hip-hop, “ghetto” or “gangsta” music has much in common with its corresponding American subgenres, including its portrayal of life on the margins, confrontational style, and aspirational “rags-to-riches” narratives. Contrary to depictions …
Future of Song-Dance in Peru
The Sonic Heritages of Amazonian Peoples
Inbunden, 2027
1649 kr
Kommande
Focusing on the Asháninka and Nomatsigenga peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, this book engages with current debates on archived sonic legacies and their restitution to the Indigenous communities where they were recorded. Taking a decolonial approach to the anthropology of music, it explores how …
Embodied Communities
Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Häftad, 2010
543 kr
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Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance’s role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come …
Dancing At the Crossroads
Memory and Mobility in Ireland
Av Helena Wulff
Inbunden, 2007
1916 kr
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Dancing at the crossroads used to be young people's opportunity to meet and enjoy themselves on mild summer evenings in the countryside in Ireland until this practice was banned by law, the Public Dance Halls Act in 1935. Now a key metaphor in Irish cultural and political life, "dancing at the …
Embodied Communities
Dance Traditions and Change in Java
Inbunden, 2008
1979 kr
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Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance’s role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come …
