Book Description
This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.
Author : Charlotte Heth
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, with Starwood Pub.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Indian dance
ISBN :
This premier publication of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian documents Native American dance with stunning photographs and essays by noted contributors.
Author : Jamake Highwater
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : John Collier
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Apache dance
ISBN :
First published in 1949 under title: Patterns and ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest.
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0486145506
This well-researched book provides details of the varied steps Native American groups have used to express ideas — from skips, jumps, and hop steps, to an Indian form of the pas de bourrée.
Author : American Indian Center of Chicago
Publisher :
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Indigenous peoples
ISBN :
Flier for tribal and ceremonial dances held at the American Indian Center (1630 West Wilson Ave) on May 11-12, 1968.
Author : Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1452913439
During the past thirty years, Native American dance has emerged as a visible force on concert stages throughout North America. In this first major study of contemporary Native American dance, Jacqueline Shea Murphy shows how these performances are at once diverse and connected by common influences. Demonstrating the complex relationship between Native and modern dance choreography, Shea Murphy delves first into U.S. and Canadian federal policies toward Native performance from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, revealing the ways in which government sought to curtail authentic ceremonial dancing while actually encouraging staged spectacles, such as those in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows. She then engages the innovative work of Ted Shawn, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, highlighting the influence of Native American dance on modern dance in the twentieth century. Shea Murphy moves on to discuss contemporary concert dance initiatives, including Canada’s Aboriginal Dance Program and the American Indian Dance Theatre. Illustrating how Native dance enacts, rather than represents, cultural connections to land, ancestors, and animals, as well as spiritual and political concerns, Shea Murphy challenges stereotypes about American Indian dance and offers new ways of recognizing the agency of bodies on stage. Jacqueline Shea Murphy is associate professor of dance studies at the University of California, Riverside, and coeditor of Bodies of the Text: Dance as Theory, Literature as Dance.
Author : Cutcha Risling Baldy
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029574345X
“I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.” So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy’s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women’s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe’s Flower Dance had not been fully practiced for decades. The women of the tribe, recognizing the critical importance of the tradition, undertook its revitalization using the memories of elders and medicine women and details found in museum archives, anthropological records, and oral histories. Deeply rooted in Indigenous knowledge, Risling Baldy brings us the voices of people transformed by cultural revitalization, including the accounts of young women who have participated in the Flower Dance. Using a framework of Native feminisms, she locates this revival within a broad context of decolonizing praxis and considers how this renaissance of women’s coming-of-age ceremonies confounds ethnographic depictions of Native women; challenges anthropological theories about menstruation, gender, and coming-of-age; and addresses gender inequality and gender violence within Native communities.
Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807832626
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act
Author : Bessie Evans
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Reginald Laubin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806121727
Descriptions of the dances, costumes, body decorations, and musical accompaniment supplement information on the cultural background of Indian dancing