Dancing from the Heart : : Movement, Gender, and Sociality in the Cook Islands /

Dancing from the Heart : : Movement, Gender, and Sociality in the Cook Islands / / Kalissa Alexeyeff.

Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conven...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Alexeyeff, Kalissa,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Map 1. Oceania
  • PROLOGUE
  • On the Beach: An Introduction
  • 1. 'Are Karioi, Houses of Entertainment: Dance in History
  • 2. The Politics of Contemporary Dance
  • 3. Shy Girls and Show-offs: Dancing Local Values
  • 4. Paramount Queens: Femininity and Global/Local Dissonance
  • 5. Outing: Dancing after Dark
  • 6. Over the Reef: Dance in a Time of Transition
  • EPILOGUE
  • APPENDIX: COOK ISLANDS DANCE GENRES
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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