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Dance and the body politic in northern Greece

by: Cowan, J.K.

Price: 35,00 EURO

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Category: Modern Greece
Code: 30850
ISBN-13: 9780691028545 / 978-0-691-02854-5
ISBN-10: 0691028540 / 0-691-02854-0
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Date: 1990
Publication Place: New Jersey
Binding: Paper
Pages: 252
Book Condition: As New
Comments: Series: Princeton modern Greek studies

 
Dance and the body politic in northern Greece

Author:
Jane K. Cowan

Summary:Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central, yet until now ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly structured and dynamic social arena, she approaches the human body not only as a sign to be deciphered but as a site of experience and an agent of practice. In describing the multiple ideologies of person, gender, and community that townspeople embody and explore as they dance, Cowan presents three different settings: the traditional wedding procession, the "Europeanized" formal evening dance of local civic associations, and the private party. She examines the practices of eating, drinking, talking, gifting, and dancing, and the verbal discourse through which celebrants make sense of each other's actions. Paying particular attention to points of tension and moments of misunderstanding, she analyzes in what ways these social situations pose different problems for men and women.


Series:
Princeton modern Greek studies

 

xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.


Contents:
Entering the dance
Place, distinctions, identities
Gender, household, and community
Everyday sociability as gendered practice
Dancing signs: deciphering the body in wedding celebrations
The orchestration of association in formal evening dances
Male prestige and the eruption of conflict
Ambivalent pleasures: dance as a problem for women
Aphrodite's tables: breakdown, blame, and female sexuality
Because of the dance


Subjects:
Dance Anthropological aspects
Dance Anthropological aspects Greece
Dans
Danse Aspect anthropologique Grèce
Danse Grèce
Greece
Greece Social life and customs 20th century
Grèce Moeurs et coutumes
Grèce Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle
Lichaamstaal
Manners and customs
Sex in dance
Sex in dance Greece
Sex roles
Sexualité dans la danse Grèce
Sexualité dans la danse Grèce Anthropologie
Sexuality in dance Greece

 
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