Title Society and the dance : the social anthropology of process and performance / edited by Paul Spencer

Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description x, 224 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Introduction Interpretations of the dance in anthropology / Paul Spencer -- 1. Temiar dance and the maintenance of order / Sue Jennings -- 2. Movement, dance, music, and the Venda girls' initiation cycle / John Blacking -- 3. Structured movement systems in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 4. 'A line of boys': Melpa dance as a symbol of maturation / Andrew Strathern -- 5. Dance as antithesis in the Samburu discourse / Paul Spencer -- 6. The dance among the Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton -- 7. Style and meaning in Umeda dance / Alfred Gell -- Epilogue Anthropology and the study of dance / Peter Brinson Analysis Dancing - Anthropological perspectives Notes Includes name and subject indexes Bibliography Includes bibliographies and indexes Includes index Subject Dance -- Anthropological aspects. Dance -- Social aspects. Dance -- Social aspects -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses. Dance -- Social aspects -- Kenya. Dance -- Social aspects -- New Guinea. Dance -- Social aspects -- Tonga. Dance -- Social aspects -- Uganda. Dance -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Anthropological aspects -- Congresses Rites and ceremonies. Author Spencer, Paul, 1932- University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. LC no. 84029212 ISBN 0521305217 0521315506 (paperback)

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