Dance and the body politic in northern Greece /

Valorados por su intensidad sensual y social, los eventos de danza griega a menudo también son problemáticos para los participantes, dando lugar a luchas por la posición, el prestigio y la reputación. Aquí Jane Cowan explora cómo la política de género se articula a través del cuerpo en estas celebra...

• Main Author: Cowan, Jane K., 1954-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.
• Series: Princeton modern Greek studies
• Subjects: ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL Y SOCIAL; ROL SEXUAL; DANZA; MASCULINIDAD; FEMINISMO; HISTORIA CULTURAL; GRECIA; PERFORMANCE

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION Entering the Dance. CHAPTER ONE Place, Distinctions, Identities. CHAPTER TWO Gender, Household, and Community. CHAPTER THREE Everyday Sociability as Gendered Practice. CHAPTER FOUR Dancing Signs: Deciphering the Body in Wedding Celebrations. CHAPTER FIVE The Orchestration of Association in Formal Evening Dances. CHAPTER SIX Male Prestige and the Eruption of Conflict. CHAPTER SEVEN Ambivalent Pleasures: Dance as a Problem for Women. CHAPTER EIGHT Aphrodite’s Tables: Breakdown, Blame, and Female Sexuality. CHAPTER NINE Because of the Dance.