ALL DANCES ARE ETHNIC, BUT SOME ARE MORE ETHNIC THAN OTHERS: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON DANCE STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Dance Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-21

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DOI: 10.3366/drs.1999.17.1.3     Document Type: Article

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2. Helen Thomas (ed.), Dance, Gender and Culture, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993, Dance in the City, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997
3. Helen Thomas, Dance, Modernity and Culture. Explorations in the Sociology of Dance, London: Routledge, 1995
4. Jane C. Desmond (ed.), Meaning in Motion. New Cultural Studies of Dance, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997
5. Gay Morris (ed.), Moving Words. Re-writing Dance, London: Routledge, 1996
6. Susan Manning, Ecstasy and the Demon. Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
7. For a related discussion see Helen Thomas, 'Do You Want to Join the Dance?: Postmodernism/Poststructuralism, the Body, and Dance' in G. Morris (ed.), Moving Words, pp. 63-87.
8. For debate in dance history see Janet Adshead Lansdale, 'Border Tensions in the Discipline of Dance History', Re-tooling the Discipline: Research and Teaching Strategiesfor the 21st Century, Proceedings of the Society of Dance History Scholars, 10 13 February 1994, compiled by Linda Tomko, pp. 13-25
9. Richard Ralph, 'On the Light Fantastic Toe: Dance Scholarship and Academic Fashion', Dance Chronicle, 18, 2, 1995, pp. 249-60.
10. Janet Adshead Lansdale, 'The "Congealed Residues" of Dance History: a Response to Richard Ralph's "Dance Scholarship and Academic Fashion" One Path to a Pre-detcrmined Enlightenment (with a postscript by Richard Allen Cave)', Dance Chronicle, 20, 1, 1997, pp. 63-79
11. Barbara Sparti, Janet Adshead Lansdale, 'Dialogue: Dance History Current Methodologies', Dance Research Journal, 28, 1, 1996, pp. 3-5. This debate is by no means restricted to dance; the interstices of history and anthropology, anthropology and biology and anthropology and archaeology have also prompted considerable debate.
12. For a history of the north American developments in dance anthropology see Adrienne Kaeppler, 'American Approaches to the Study of Dance', Yearbook for Traditional Music, 23, 1991, pp. 11-21.
13. Andree Grau's John Blacking and the Development of Dance Anthropology in the United Kingdom', Dance Research Journal, 25, 2 1993, pp. 21 31 for an overview in Great Britain.
14. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, London: Fontana.
15. Carla Pasquinelli, 'The concept of culture between modernity and postmodernity' in Vaclav Hubinger (ed.), Grasping the Changing World: Anthropological Concepts in the Postmodern Era, London and New York: Routledge, 1996, pp. 53-73.
16. For debate on the relationship between cultural studies and anthropology see Cultural Studies will be the Death of Anthropology, Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, 1996.
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18. Body, Movement and Culture. Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philipine Community, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992
19. Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
20. 'Theoretical and Methodological Considerations for Anthropological Studies of Dance and Human Movement Systems', Ethnographica, 8, 1992, pp. 25, 151-57 (p. 151).
21. For a characterisation of ethnochoreology see Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp, 'Theory and Methods in Dance Research: A European Approach to the Holistic Study of Dance', Yearbook for Traditional Music, 23, 1991, pp. 1 10.
22. Dance ethnology is the term promoted by the masters programme at the University of California, Los Angeles, see Allegra Fuller Snyder, 'Past, Present and Future', UCLA Journal of Dance Ethnology, 16, 1992, pp. 1 28.
23. In considering the relationship between these approaches and mainstream dance studies, compare that between musicology and ethnomusicology, see Bruno Nettl, 'Mozart and the Ethnomusicological Study of Western Culture: An Essay in Four Movements', Yearbook for Traditional Music, 21,1989, pp. 1 16.
24. Ana Sanchez-Colberg has similarly noted such an omission in her review of Alexandra Carter (ed.), The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 1998 in Dance Research Journal, 14, 4, 1999, p. 47
25. see Jane C. Desmond (ed.), Meaning in Motion, p. 23, note 14.
26. See W. C. Reynolds (ed.), 'Dance in the ICTM', ICTM Dance Newsletter, 1,1, 1987, n.p.
27. 'History of the Study Group', ICTM Dance Newsletter, 2, 1988a, n.p.
28. 'Short Communications, Czechoslovakia', ICTM Dance Newsletter, 3, 1988b, n.p.
29. Short Communications, Czechoslovakia', ICTM Dance Newsletter, 3, 1988b, n.p.
30. Sally Ann Ness, 'Observing the Evidence Fail: DifFerences arising from Objectificalion in Cross-cultural Studies' in G. Morris (ed.), Moving Words, pp. 245-69
31. Cynthia J. Novack, 'Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power' in H. Thomas, Dance, Gender and Culture, pp. 34 48
32. Judith Lynne Hanna, 'Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status' in Thomas, op. cit., pp. 119 35.
33. See, for example, Hanna, Dance, Sex and Gender. Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988
34. Novack, Sharing the Dance, and 'Ballet, Gender and Cultural Power', op. cit.
35. See, for example, Ann Daly, 'The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers', The Drama Review, 31, 1. 1987, pp. 8-21
36. Susan E. Foster, 'The Ballerina's Phallic Pointe' in her edited collection, Corporealities, pp. 1-24. In general, such readings draw upon semiotics and psychoanalytic theory rendered through feminism.
37. First published in Impulse, edited by Marian van Tuyl, San Francisco: Impulse Publications, 1969 70, later in the Journalfor the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, 1,2, 1980, pp. 83-97
38. in What is Dance? edied by Roger Copeland and Marshall Cohen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983, pp. 533-49. My observations on this article were first made as part of a panel to honour Joann Kcaliinohomoku at her award of Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research made by the Congress on Research in Dance, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1996.
39. For a review of the decline of this paradigm in the social sciences see S. N. Eisenstadt, 'Functional Analysis in Anthropology and Sociology: An Interpretative Essay', Annual Review of Anthropology, 19, 1990, pp. 243-60.
40. Page 544; for an overview of ethnicity see the reader edited by John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
41. Suzanne Youngerman, 'Curt Sachs and his heritage: A Critical Review of World History of the Dance with a Survey of recent Studies that perpetuate his Ideas', CORD News (Committee on Research in Dance), 6, 2, 1974, pp. 6 19
42. Drid Williams, review of Frances Rust, Dance in Society: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Social Dance and Society in England from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969 in CORD News, 6, 2, 1974, pp. 29 31.
43. Pages 16 17.
44. The seminal text is George E. Marcus and Michael M. Fisher, Anthropology as Cultural Critique. An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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46. Pagexi.
47. Page 159.
48. Page 9.
49. Page 2.
50. Page 49.
51. Page 52.
52. 'Ethno-graphics and the Moving Body', Man (N.S.), 29, 1994, pp. 929 74.