Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior - Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancing's 'embodied knowledge', Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics.
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"[Daniel] advances dance anthropology through ambitious meticulous scholarship, acute comparative analyses, riveting ethnographic description and a sensual sense of the dancing body that makes one feel the movement of the muscles and spirit."--Dance Research Journal
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Spiritual dancing is fulfilling, reading about it is not!,
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Having danced with Ms. Annie King, master Dance Vodoun teacher from Katherine Dunham's tradition I was expecting much from this book. I believe I was unrealistic with my expectation. I was expecting it to trigger memories of my dance with the Loa and they joy that brought to my soul while under the tutelage of Ms. King. In stead I felt is overstated the experience. Let dancers dance, the expereince is not in reading about it!!! My lesson to learn. SQ
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I am fascinated by belief systems that rely heavily on dance behavior. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capoeira angola, officiating oungan, dancing worshipers, ritual community members, dancing divinities, dancing human body, dance behavior, batá drums, nation dances, liturgical orders, foot pattern, dancing body, ritual practitioners, praise performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Cuban Yoruba, Haitian Vodou, African Diaspora, United States, Indiana University Press, Mae Stela, Catholic Church, Sheila Walker, Los Angeles, University of California Press, Katherine Dunham, West Central Africa, Papa Dambala, West African, Chant Drum Rhythm Main Dance Step, Oxford University Press, American Cultures, Madame Lavinia, University of Chicago Press, Papa Legba, New World, Ayida Wèdo, Bight of Benin Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
I am fascinated by belief systems that rely heavily on dance behavior. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capoeira angola, officiating oungan, dancing worshipers, ritual community members, dancing divinities, dancing human body, dance behavior, batá drums, nation dances, liturgical orders, foot pattern, dancing body, ritual practitioners, praise performance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, African American, Cuban Yoruba, Haitian Vodou, African Diaspora, United States, Indiana University Press, Mae Stela, Catholic Church, Sheila Walker, Los Angeles, University of California Press, Katherine Dunham, West Central Africa, Papa Dambala, West African, Chant Drum Rhythm Main Dance Step, Oxford University Press, American Cultures, Madame Lavinia, University of Chicago Press, Papa Legba, New World, Ayida Wèdo, Bight of Benin Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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