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Title Dancing cultures : globalization, tourism and identity in the anthropology of dance / edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : illustrations
Series Dance and performance studies ; volume 4
Dance and performance studies ; v. 4.
Contents Introduction : The movement of dancing cultures / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner -- Globalization and the dance import-export business : the jive story / Jonathan Skinner -- Ballet culture and the market : a transnational perspective / Helena Wulff -- 'We've got this rhythm in our blood' : dancing identities in southern Italy / Karen Lüdtke -- Performance in tourism : transforming the gaze and the tourist encounter at Híwus Feasthouse / Linda Scarangella-McNenly -- Movement on the move : performance and dance toruism in Southeast Asia / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Dance, visibility and representational self-awareness in an Emberá community in Panama / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Moving shadows of Casamance : performance and regionalism in Senegal / Hélène Neveu Kringelbach -- Ballet Folklórico Mexicano : choreographing national identity in a transnational context / Olga Nájera-Ramírez -- Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea / Séverine Carrausse -- Preparation, presentation and power : children's performances in a Balinese dance studio / Jonathan McIntosh -- Epilogue : Making culture through dance / Caroline Potter
Summary 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 of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Dance -- Anthropological aspects.
Dance -- Social aspects.
Tourism -- Anthropological aspects.
Tourism -- Social aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Dance -- Anthropological aspects
Dance -- Social aspects
Tourism -- Anthropological aspects
Tourism -- Social aspects
Globalisierung
Kulturelle Identität
Ethnologie
Tanz
Volkstanz
Tourismus
Dans.
Toerisme.
Internationalisatie.
Antropologische aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Neveu Kringelbach, Hélène, 1969- editor.
Skinner, Jonathan, 1970- editor.
ISBN 9780857455765
0857455761
9781299777279
1299777279