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Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble
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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.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #400828 in Books
- Published on: 2005-09-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 348 pages
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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
Customer Reviews
Spiritual dancing is fulfilling, reading about it is not!
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
