Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble by Yvonne Daniel
Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances
Dancing Wisdom
Summary
Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, this title considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior - Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. It examines these oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, and aesthetics.
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Winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006).
[Daniel] advances dance anthropology through ambitious meticulous scholarship, acute comparative analyses, riveting ethnographic description and a sensual sense of the dancing body that makes one feel the movement of the muscles and spirit.--Dance Research Journal
Table of Contents
Dancing religions of the Afro-Americas; Body knowledge at the crossroads; Days of remembrance; Dances of memory; Praise dance and liturgical orders; Informal learning with Haitian Laws; Informal learning with Bahian Orichas; Formal learning with Cuban Orichas; The dancing body and its social medicine
Additional information
CIN0252072073G
9780252072079
0252072073
Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble by Yvonne Daniel
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Illinois Press
2005-08-10
348
Winner of <DIV>Winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize (2006).</DIV> 2006
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