Society and the dance : the social anthropology of process and performance / edited by Paul Spencer.

Contributor(s): Spencer, Paul, 1932-Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985. Description: x, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521305217; 0521315506 (pbk.); 9780521305211 Subject(s): Dance -- Anthropological aspects | Rites and ceremonies | Dance -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.484 LOC classification: GV1588.6 | .S63 1985Online resources: Publisher description | WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Introduction: Interpretations of the dance in anthropology / Paul Spencer -- 1. Temiar dance and the maintenance of order / Sue Jennings -- 2. Movement, dance, music, and the Venda girls' initiation cycle / John Blacking -- 3. Structured movement systems in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- 4. 'A line of boys': Melpa dance as a symbol of maturation / Andrew Strathern -- 5. Dance as antithesis in the Samburu discourse / Paul Spencer -- 6. The dance among the Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton -- 7. Style and meaning in Umeda dance / Alfred Gell -- Epilogue: Anthropology and the study of dance / Peter Brinson.

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TOC Introduction: Interpretations of the dance in anthropology / Paul Spencer --
1. Temiar dance and the maintenance of order / Sue Jennings --
2. Movement, dance, music, and the Venda girls' initiation cycle / John Blacking --
3. Structured movement systems in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler --
4. 'A line of boys': Melpa dance as a symbol of maturation / Andrew Strathern --
5. Dance as antithesis in the Samburu discourse / Paul Spencer --
6. The dance among the Lugbara of Uganda / John Middleton --
7. Style and meaning in Umeda dance / Alfred Gell --
Epilogue: Anthropology and the study of dance / Peter Brinson.

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