Fields in Motion
eBook - PDF

Fields in Motion

Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance

  1. 486 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fields in Motion

Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance

About this book

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture.

The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, autoethnography, pedagogies and creative processes, and choreographies as cultural and spiritual representations. The contributors bring an insiders insight to their accounts of the nature and function of these artistic practices, giving voice to dancers, dance teachers, creators, programmers, spectators, students, and scholars.

International and intergenerational, this collection of groundbreaking scholarly research points to a new direction for both dance studies and dance anthropology. Traditionally the exclusive domain of aesthetic philosophers, the art of dance is here reframed as cultural practice, and its significance is revealed through a chorus of voices from practitioners and insider ethnographers.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. Copyright
  4. FOREWORD
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION Anthropology at Home in the Art Worlds of Dance
  7. SECTION 1 - Inventing Strategies, Models, and Methods
  8. SECTION 2 - Embodying Autoethnographies
  9. SECTION 3 - Examining Creative Processes and Pedagogies
  10. SECTION 4 - Revealing Choreographies as Cultural and Spiritual Practices
  11. EPILOGUE Theory That Acts like Dancing THE AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC STRUT
  12. List of Contributors
  13. COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  14. Index
  15. BACK COVER