Dancing Culture Religion

Informationen zum Autor Sam Gill is professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Klappentext Provocative insights into the nature of dancing as inseparable from human vitality and distinctiveness emerge from this spiraling study of specific cultural dance traditions brought into conversation with various philosophical/theoretical perspectives centering on the topics: movement, gesture, play, masking, ritual, seduction, performance, religion; each the subject of engaging innovative analysis. The author draws on experience as dancer and academic to address contemporary issues such as gender identity development and plasticity and acuity throughout the lifespan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: MovingChapter 2: GesturingChapter 3: Self-OtheringChapter 4: Playingchapter 5: SeducingChapter 6: Dancing

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• Authors: Sam Gill, Sam D. Gill, Sam/ Carp Gill, Gill Sam
• Assisted by: Richard Carp (Editor), Rebecca Sachs Norris (Editor), Carp Richard (Editor of the series), Norris Rebecca Sachs (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2012
• EAN: 9780739174722
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7472-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Studies in Body and Religion; Studies in Body and Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Dance, RELIGION / Spirituality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Spirituality & religious experience, Social and cultural anthropology, Spirituality and religious experience