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)
officiating oungan, dancing worshipers, ritual community members, dancing divinities, dancing human body, tumba francesa, dance behavior, nation dances, dancing body, foot pattern, liturgical order, ritual practitioners, ritual members, many worshipers, dance formations, praise performance, ritual officials, embodied knowledge, dance space, plant knowledge, ritual communities, dance history, ritual family, movement vocabulary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cuban Yoruba, African American, Haitian Vodou, African Diaspora, United States, Catholic Church, South America, Papa Legba, Supreme Being, West Central Africa, Bight of Benin, Casa Branca, Papa Dambala, Chant Drum Rhythm Main Dance Step, Kuzen Zaka, Madame Lavinia, West African, Bahian Yoruba, Bois Cayman, Cross-Cultural Model, Katherine Dunham, Haitian Revolution, Native American, Republic of Benin, African Americas New!
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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)
officiating oungan, dancing worshipers, ritual community members, dancing divinities, dancing human body, tumba francesa, dance behavior, nation dances, dancing body, foot pattern, liturgical order, ritual practitioners, ritual members, many worshipers, dance formations, praise performance, ritual officials, embodied knowledge, dance space, plant knowledge, ritual communities, dance history, ritual family, movement vocabulary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cuban Yoruba, African American, Haitian Vodou, African Diaspora, United States, Catholic Church, South America, Papa Legba, Supreme Being, West Central Africa, Bight of Benin, Casa Branca, Papa Dambala, Chant Drum Rhythm Main Dance Step, Kuzen Zaka, Madame Lavinia, West African, Bahian Yoruba, Bois Cayman, Cross-Cultural Model, Katherine Dunham, Haitian Revolution, Native American, Republic of Benin, African Americas New!
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- North Carolina: A Sense of Belonging/Carolina Pride/Look to the Heart (Heartsong Novella Collection) by Terry Fowler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado on page 41, and page 102
- The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic by Wade Davis on page 41, and Back Matter
- Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa (New Directions in Archaeology) by Susan Keech McIntosh in Back Matter
- A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey: Popular Music and Power in Haiti (Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology) by Gage Averill in Back Matter
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