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Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece

Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece Paperback - 1990

by Cowan, Jane K

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Princeton University Press, 1990. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title Dance and the Body Politic in Northern Greece
  • Author Cowan, Jane K
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 310
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1990
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0691028540I2N00
  • ISBN 9780691028545 / 0691028540
  • Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.12 x 0.7 in (23.55 x 15.54 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Mediterranean
  • Library of Congress subjects Dance - Anthropological aspects - Greece, Sex in dance - Greece
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90030232
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.809

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From the rear cover

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.