Dancing from Past to Present : Nation, Culture, Identities.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Dance, History, and Ethnography: Frameworks, Sources, and Identities of Past and Present -- 2 Dances and Dancing in Tonga: Anthropological and Historical Discourses -- 3 Constructing a Classical Tradition: Javanese Court Dance in Indonesia -- 4 Utopia, Eutopia, and E.U.-topia: Performance and Memory in Former Yugoslavia -- 5 Qualities of Memory: Two Dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico -- 6 Dancing through History and Ethnography: Indian Classical Dance and the Performance of the Past -- 7 Interpreting the Historical Record: Using Images of Korean Dance for Understanding the Past -- 8 Romani Dance Event in Skopje, Macedonia: Research Strategies, Cultural Identities, and Technologies -- 9 Being Traditional: Authentic Selves and Others in Researching Late-Twentieth-Century Northwest English Morris Dancing -- Selected Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.

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 from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.

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