| Description |
1 online resource |
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Princeton modern Greek studies |
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Princeton modern Greek studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; PREFACE ; INTRODUCTION ENTERING THE DANCE ; Conceptualizing Gender ; Conceptualizing the Dance ; Conceptualizing the Body ; Deciphering Bodies ; CHAPTER ONE PLACE, DISTINCTIONS, IDENTITIES ; Making a Living |
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Sohos in the Macedonian Context Political Distinctions ; CHAPTER TWO GENDER, HOUSEHOLD, AND COMMUNITY ; The Domestic Organization of Gender and Sexuality ; Household Labor ; Fieldwork ; Shifting Images of Place ; Negotiating Place and Placement |
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CHAPTER THREE EVERYDAY SOCIABILITY AS GENDERED PRACTICE Food, Spirits, and Engendering Personhood ; Coffee, Love, and Passing the Time ; The Moral Geography of Public Leisure Space ; When Women Drink Coffee in the Kafeteria ; Ambiguities of Resistance |
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CHAPTER FOUR DANCING SIGNS: DECIPHERING BODY IN WEDDING CELEBRATIONS The Wedding as Words ; Joy and Domination in the Performance of Masculinity ; Body and Spirits ; Girls in the Patinadha ; The Bridal Body ; Of Gender and Gypsies ; Reflexivity and Ritual |
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CHAPTER FIVE THE ORCHESTRATION OF ASSOCIATION IN FORMAL EVENING DANCESThe Category of Horoesperidha ; The Businesspeople's Association Dance ; Ground Rules ; Rituals of Solidarity ; Keeping Order through Orderly Disorder ; CHAPTER SIX MALE PRESTIGE AND THE ERUPTION OF CONFLICT |
| Summary |
Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly structured and dynamic social arena, she approaches the human body not only as a sign to be deciphered but as a site of experience and an agent of practice. In describing the multiple ideologies of person, gender, and community that townspeople embody and explore as they dance, Cowan presents three different settings: the traditional wedding procession, the "Europeanized" formal evening dance of local civic associations, and the private party. She examines the practices of eating, drinking, talking, gifting, and dancing, and the verbal discourse through which celebrants make sense of each other's actions. Paying particular attention to points of tension and moments of misunderstanding, she analyzes in what ways these social situations pose different problems for men and women |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-244) |
| Subject |
Dance -- Anthropological aspects -- Greece
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Sex in dance -- Greece
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Dance -- Anthropological aspects
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Manners and customs
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Sex in dance
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057132
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| Subject |
Greece
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400884377 |
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1400884373 |
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