El Cuerpo del Baile: The kinetic and social fundaments of tango

Body and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 63-81

  Olszewski, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporeal sociology; Cultural studies; Dance; Ethnography; Tango

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949223648     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08090698     Document Type: Article

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