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Dancing wisdom : embodied knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomble

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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 dancing's "embodied knowledge," Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics.

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University of Illinois Press
0252072073 / 9780252072079
Paperback / softback
10/08/2005
United States
English
256 p.
23 cm
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