Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé
Yvonne Daniel
(Author)
Description
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
Price
$30.00
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publish Date
August 10, 2005
Pages
348
Dimensions
6.22 X 9.0 X 0.81 inches | 1.26 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780252072079
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Winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006).
"[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