@BerghahnAnthro
@BerghahnHistory
@BerghahnPoliSci
DANCING CULTURES
Globalization, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance
Edited by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner
ISBN 978-0-85745-575-8 Hb $90.00/£56.00 Published (October 2012)
eISBN 978-0-85745-576-5
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada. Dance often captures those essential dimensions of social life that cannot be easily put into words. What are the flows and movements of dance carried by migrants and tourists? How is dance used to shape nationalist ideology? What are the connections between dance and ethnicity, gender, health, globalization and nationalism, capitalism and post-colonialism? Through innovative and wide-ranging case studies, the contributors explore the central role dance plays in culture as leisure commodity, cultural heritage, cultural aesthetic or cathartic social movement.
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Oxford Diaspora Programme Researcher at the University of Oxford. Her current research interests include dance and musical theatre in West Africa and beyond, contemporary choreography in Africa and transnational families across Senegal and Europe.
Jonathan Skinner is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat (Arawak Publications 2004) and co-editor of Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (Berghahn Books 2011).
Series: Volume 4, Dance and Performance Studies
LC: GV1588.6.D394 2012
BISAC: PER000000 PERFORMING ARTS/General; TRA000000 TRANSPORTATION/General; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/CulturalBIC: AS Dance & other performing arts; JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnographyContents
Introduction: The Movement of Dancing Cultures
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University of Oxford) and Jonathan Skinner (Queen’s University Belfast)
Part I: Dance and globalisation
Chapter 1. Globalization and the Dance Import/Export Business: The Jive Story
Jonathan Skinner (Queen’s University Belfast)
Chapter 2. Ballet culture and the market: a transnational perspective
Helena Wulff (University of Stockholm)
Chapter 3. “We’ve got this rhythm in our blood”: dancing identities in Southern Italy
Karen Lüdtke (Independent Scholar)
Part II: Tourism, Social Transformation and the Dance
Chapter 4. Performance in tourism: transforming the gaze and tourist encounter at Híwus Feasthouse
Linda Scarangella-McNenly (McMaster University)
Chapter 5. Movement on the move: performance and dance tourism
Felicia Hughes-Freeland (Swansea University)
Chapter 6. Dance, visibility and representational self-awareness in an Embera community in Panama
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent)
Part III: Dance, identity and the nation
Chapter 7. Moving shadows of Casamance: dance and regionalism in Senegal
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (University of Oxford)
Chapter 8. Ballet Folklórico Mexicano: choreographing a national identity in a transnational context
Olga Nájera-Ramírez (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Chapter 9. Dance, youth and changing gender identities in Korea
Séverine Carrausse (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Chapter 10. Preparation, presentation and power: children’s performances in a Balinese dance studio
Jonathan McIntosh (University of Western Australia)
Epilogue: Making culture
Caroline Potter (University of Oxford)
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index