| Description |
vi, 257 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Unnatural acts |
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Unnatural acts.
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| Contents |
Choreographing History / Susan Leigh Foster -- Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man / Stephen Greenblatt -- Interval Training / John J. MacAloon -- Christian Conversion and the Challenge of Dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body / Mario Biagioli -- Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body / Susan McClary -- Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography / Randy Martin -- Credit, Novels, Masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Advertising Every Body Images from the Japanese Modern Years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach -- Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda / Susan A. Manning -- The Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices / Cynthia J. Novack -- Different Personas: A History of One's Own? / Lena Hammergren |
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Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesian Two-Step / Sue-Ellen Case -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing / Peggy Phelan -- Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists / Sharon Traweek -- Bodies and Their Plots / Hayden White |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-247) and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
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Choreography.
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Dance -- Social aspects.
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Historiography.
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Foster, Susan Leigh.
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| LC no. |
94003622 |
| ISBN |
0253209358 |
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0253324114 |
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