Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé

Type

Book

Authors

Yvonne Daniel

ISBN 10

0252072073

ISBN 13

9780252072079

Tags

Dance, Tribal & Ethnic, Comparative Religion, Sociology, Cultural, Haiti, Cuba, Candomblé, Movement, Embodiment

Description

Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior--Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancing's embodied knowledge, Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics. - from Amzon

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