Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece

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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780691028545
9780691094496
eBook ISBN
9781400884377
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction Entering The Dance
  9. Chapter One: Place, Distinctions, Identities
  10. Chapter Two: Gender, Household, And Community
  11. Chapter Three: Everyday Sociability As Gendered Practice
  12. Chapter Four: Dancing Signs: Deciphering The Body In Wedding Celebrations
  13. Chapter Five: The Orchestration Of Association In Formal Evening Dances
  14. Chapter Six: Male Prestige And The Eruption Of Conflict
  15. Chapter Seven: Ambivalent Pleasures: Dance As A Problem For Women
  16. Chapter Eight: Aphrodite’s Tables: Breakdown, Blame, And Female Sexuality
  17. Chapter Nine: Because Of The Dance
  18. Works cited
  19. Index

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