Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Ca

Description: Dancing Wisdom by Yvonne Daniel 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior - Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancings "embodied knowledge," Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics. Author Biography Yvonne Daniel is an associate professor of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is the author of Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba, and has performed with the Cuban National Folkloric Ensemble and as Guest Artist for several Latin American dance companies. 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 Review "Dancing Wisdom offers the rare opportunity to see into the world of mystical spiritual belief as articulated and manifested in ritual by dance. Whether it is a Cuban Yoruba dance ritual, slave Ring Shout or contemporary Pentecostal Holy Ghost possession dancing shout, we are able to understand the relationship with spirit through dancing with the Divine. Yvonne Daniels work synthesizes the cognitive empirical objectivity of an anthropologist with the passionate storytelling of a poetic artist in articulating how dance becomes prayer in ritual for Africans of the Diaspora." Leon T. Burrows, Protestant Chaplain, Smith College Long Description Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior--Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancings "embodied knowledge," Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics. Review Text Dancing Wisdom offers the rare opportunity to see into the world of mystical spiritual belief as articulated and manifested in ritual by dance. Whether it is a Cuban Yoruba dance ritual, slave Ring Shout or contemporary Pentecostal Holy Ghost possession dancing shout, we are able to understand the relationship with spirit through dancing with the Divine. Yvonne Daniels work synthesizes the cognitive empirical objectivity of an anthropologist with the passionate storytelling of a poetic artist in articulating how dance becomes prayer in ritual for Africans of the Diaspora. Leon T. Burrows, Protestant Chaplain, Smith College Review Quote 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 Promotional "Headline" Landmark interdisciplinary study of religious systems through their dance performances Details ISBN0252072073 Author Yvonne Daniel Short Title DANCING WISDOM Publisher University of Illinois Press Language English ISBN-10 0252072073 ISBN-13 9780252072079 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Year 2005 Imprint University of Illinois Press Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Baltimore Birth 1940 DOI 10.1604/9780252072079 UK Release Date 2005-08-10 NZ Release Date 2005-08-10 US Release Date 2005-08-10 Pages 348 Publication Date 2005-08-10 Subtitle Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé Alternative 9780252029660 DEWEY 299.6097 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2005-10-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137495021;

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