ISBN:
9780824862121
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
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10 illus
DDC:
306.4/846099623
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Culture and globalization
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Dance Social aspects
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Sex role
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Kulturkontakt
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Geschlechterrolle
;
Tanz
;
Cookinseln
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Hochschulschrift
;
Cookinseln
;
Tanz
;
Kulturkontakt
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization’s impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production. Central to the study is a rich and textured ethnographic account of contemporary Cook Islands dance practice. Based on fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and archival research, it offers an engrossing analysis of how Cook Islands social life is generated through expressive practices. Dance is explored in a variety of settings, including beauty pageants, tourist venues, nightclubs and community celebrations at home and within Cook Islands communities abroad.Contemporary Cook Islands dance practices are also shaped by competing ideas about the past. Debates about precolonial traditions, missionization, and colonialism pervade discussions about dance and expressive culture. Alexeyeff shows how the politics of tradition reflect the competing moral, political, personal, and economic practices of postcolonial Cook Islanders. Throughout the work the stories and voices of individuals are brought to the fore. Their views are juxtaposed with scholarship on tradition, modernity, and social dynamics.Engaging and accessible, Dancing from the Heart illuminates specific and intimate aspects of Cook Islands social life while, at the same time, addressing fundamental questions within anthropology and indigenous, performance, and postcolonial studies
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
,
In English
DOI:
10.21313/9780824862121
DOI:
10.21313/9780824862121
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9780824862121
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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