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9780521305211, titled "Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $55.00 | also contains Society and the Dance: The Social Anthropology of Process and Performance

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Product Description: Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Canada...read more
By Jonathan Skinner (editor)

Hardcover:

9780857455758 | Berghahn Books, October 15, 2012, cover price $120.00

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9781782385226 | Berghahn Books, May 7, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Dance is more than an aesthetic of life – dance embodies life.

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Product Description: In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard...read more

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9780739174722 | Lexington Books, August 24, 2012, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard.

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9780739174739 | 1 edition (Lexington Books, August 10, 2012), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard.

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Product Description: Dance in a World of Change: Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference will help you -understand how dance instruction is affected by globalization;-discover the ways in which the discourse and curriculum of dance connect it to the critical, political, moral, and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary society; and-learn from the rich and generative set of experiences of international dance educators, choreographers, critics, and scholars...read more
By Sherry B. Shapiro (editor)

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9780736069434 | Human Kinetics, August 15, 2008, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Dance in a World of Change: Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference will help you -understand how dance instruction is affected by globalization;-discover the ways in which the discourse and curriculum of dance connect it to the critical, political, moral, and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary society; and-learn from the rich and generative set of experiences of international dance educators, choreographers, critics, and scholars.

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Product Description: Book is brand new, no harm done to it. Bought for a class that I didn't even need to read.

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9781465202062 | 3 edition (Kendall Hunt Pub Co, December 10, 2012), cover price $88.20 | About this edition: Book is brand new, no harm done to it.
9780757539244 | 2 edition (Kendall Hunt Pub Co, February 28, 2007), cover price $74.07 | About this edition: Book by BENNAHUM JUDITH
9780757504389 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, January 31, 2003, cover price $58.75 | About this edition: Book by BENNAHUM JUDITH

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Product Description: This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England...read more

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9780299218508 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 5, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England.

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9780299218546 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, January 5, 2007, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: Histoical examination of the theories of dance and human movement.
By Brenda Farnell (foreword by) and Drid Williams

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9780252028557 | 2 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 30, 2004), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Histoical examination of the theories of dance and human movement.

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9780252071348 | 2 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, August 1, 2004), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Now in paperback, Anthropology and the Dance is a lively, controversial examination and discussion of theories of the dance by the pioneer of the anthropology of human movement.

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Product Description: This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices...read more

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9780333724316 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 6, 2003, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years.

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9780333724323 | Palgrave Macmillan, September 6, 2003, cover price $50.00

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Product Description: "Dance is a powerful, frequently adopted symbol of the way people feel about themselves." So concludes the author of this book, a general introduction to the anthropology of dance. Since anthropology has broadened its horizons to include Western, industrialised and urban societies, the study of dance culture may, with equal legitimacy, observe ballet, the Hawaiian hula, the classical tradition of Bharata Natyam, the pigeon wings and polkas of the Californian gold rush miners, and the minuets of colonial Virginia planters...read more

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9780253307521 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 1977, cover price $22.50

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9781852730888 | Princeton Book Co Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: "Dance is a powerful, frequently adopted symbol of the way people feel about themselves.

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9780732604141 | Revised edition (Monash Asia Inst, September 1, 2000), cover price $8.00

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Product Description: The study of dance and movement as cultural phenomena frequently utilizes ethnography as a research strategy, yet no single text draws together the various fields of the social sciences. Written by leading exponents in dance ethnography from the disciplines of anthropology, ethnology, folklore studies and sociology, this international collection of essays addresses theoretical and methodological issues alongside considerations of documentary techniques and matters of politics and ethics...read more

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9780312223786 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 1999, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The study of dance and movement as cultural phenomena frequently utilizes ethnography as a research strategy, yet no single text draws together the various fields of the social sciences.

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By Jane C. Desmond (editor)

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9780822319368 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $94.95

Paperback:

9780822319429 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: This text brings together one philosopher and seven anthropologists in a discussion of dances and ceremonies from around the world. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Drid Williams (editor)

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9780810832367 | Scarecrow Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: This text brings together one philosopher and seven anthropologists in a discussion of dances and ceremonies from around the world.

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Product Description: Book by Gilfillan, Marjorie Mary

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9780930887223 | Wenzel Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Book by Gilfillan, Marjorie Mary

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Looks at the history of Western dance, discusses the influence of science and social and political change, and reviews the work of influential dancers and choreographers

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9780688049102 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1988, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history of Western dance, discusses the influence of science and social and political change, and reviews the work of influential dancers and choreographers

Paperback:

9780520066274 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $24.95

By Paul Spencer (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521305211 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $55.00 | also contains Extra Good Stuff

Paperback:

9780521315500 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1986, cover price $44.99

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