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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985.Description: x, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521315506 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306/.484/0967 19
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Interpretations of the dance in anthropology / Paul Spencer -- Temiar dance and the maintenance of order / Sue Jennings --Movement, dance, music, and the Venda girls' initiation cycle / John Blacking -- Structured movement systems in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 'A line of boys': Melpa dance as a symbol of maturation / Andrew Strathern -- Dance as antithesis in the Samburu discourse / Paul Spencer -- The dance among the Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton -- Style and meaning in Umeda dance / Alfred Gell -- Epilogue: Anthropology and the study of dance / Peter Brinson
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Books Books VWML GRQ 10 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only 12041

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Introduction: Interpretations of the dance in anthropology / Paul Spencer -- Temiar dance and the maintenance of order / Sue Jennings --Movement, dance, music, and the Venda girls' initiation cycle / John Blacking -- Structured movement systems in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 'A line of boys': Melpa dance as a symbol of maturation / Andrew Strathern -- Dance as antithesis in the Samburu discourse / Paul Spencer -- The dance among the Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton -- Style and meaning in Umeda dance / Alfred Gell -- Epilogue: Anthropology and the study of dance / Peter Brinson

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