Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities

Book Overview

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299218546
• ISBN13: 9780299218546
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"