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Dancing from the Heart
Kalissa Alexeyeff
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Description for Dancing from the Heart
Hardcover. Features a study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. This book demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. It also covers conventional views of globalization's impact on indigenous communities. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPC; AS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824832445
SKU
V9780824832445
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About Kalissa Alexeyeff
Kalissa Alexeyeff is a McArthur Fellow in the Gender Studies Program at the University of Melbourne.
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