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Zusatztext " This collection of essays is a welcome focus on dance anthropology. The book encompasses chapters on an impressive range of traditions and practices from developed as well as developing countries across the world! including small and large phenomena. It has a clear introduction to orientate readers in the anthropological study of dance? The essays are rich and varied case studies! interesting in themselves. However! they also collectively build layered and interlocking perspectives on larger patterns of change in the contemporary world! making the book highly topical? This collection has breadth yet also coherence. It is a dense but accessible resource on dance anthropology. " · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "While globalization and tourism are included in the discussion of dance! the strength of the content is in understanding the composition of dance and the role dance plays in shaping cultures." · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change " The presentation quality of this volume is of a high standard. The photographs are clear and they work well to support to relevant arguments. It is a successful research-oriented volume with very good links between theories and practice in relation to ethnographic studies! tourism! and dance. This book is appropriate and worthwhile for undergraduate and postgraduate students for their in-depth research on social! cultural! and tourism studies. In particular! the excellent case studies in this volume provide insights in to how dance performance is relevant to other different disciplines. Its examples are also relevant for practitioners who work in the creative! culture! and tourism sectors. " · Annals of Tourism Research Informationen zum Autor Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is a Senior Lecturer in African Studies at UCL. She was a researcher at the African Studies Centre in 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 at the University of Roehampton. 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). Klappentext This volume introduces the reader to the anthropology of dance with a comprehensive introduction followed by a set of innovative and wide-ranging case studies.The introduction provides a very comprehensive review of the anthropology of dance since the early 20th century. This is the first volume of its kind since Paul Spencer’s 1985 ‘Society and the Dance’ (other edited dance volumes have focused on staged dance, or dance in the city, or methodological issues). The contributors to this volume suggest that dance is more than an aesthetic of life: dance embodies social life. The chapters contain rich ethnographic material, and taken together, they demonstrate that a focus on dance provides insights into cultural transformation not easily accessible through verbal sources alone. This volume features material exploring connections between dance and ethnicity, globalization and nationalism; gender, health, capitalism and post-colonialism. There is a very broad coverage in terms of world regions (America, Europe, Africa, Asia) and dance genres. Zusammenfassung 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...
