Author : Marcia K. Vaughan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439352482
As Kokopelli plays his flute, desert dwellers such as Coyote and Snake, and even the children, join in his nighttime dance through the canyon.
Author : Chika Unigwe
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 19,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 9781444818246
Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she has also inherited her mother's bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from? Abandoned now, Mma has no knowledge of her father or her family - but she is desperate to find out.
Author : Yaël Tamar Lewin
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819571156
The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina Winner of the The Marfield Prize / National Award for Arts Writing (2011) Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night's Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South. Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yaël Tamar Lewin then picks up the thread of Collins's story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and colleagues to explore Collins's development as a dancer, choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.
Author : Suzanne Weyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1416989463
Under the stars, in a secret world... Rowena, the youngest of twelve sisters, loves to slip out of the castle at night and dance in a magical forest. Soon she convinces her sisters to join her. When Sir Ethan notices that his daughters' slippers look tattered every morning, he is certain they've been sneaking out. So he posts a challenge to all the suitors in the kingdom: The first man to discover where his daughters have been is free to marry the one he chooses. Meanwhile a handsome young knight named Bedivere is involved in a challenge of his own: to return the powerful sword, Excalibur, to a mysterious lake. While looking for the lake, Bedivere meets the beautiful Rowena and falls for her. Bedivere knows that accepting Sir Ethan's challenge is the only opportunity for him to be with Rowena forever. But this puts both Bedivere and Rowena in a dangerous situation...one in which they risk their lives for a chance at love.
Author : Jennifer Adams
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 125079806X
In this soothing, gentle rhyming picture book, author Jennifer Adams bids sweet dreams to the youngest readers who identify as ballerinas by day and tender, sleepy children by night. With luminous art from illustrator Alea Marley, Goodnight, Little Dancer is sure to send little ones to sleep with twirling, dancing dreams. It's time for bed now, little dancer. Time to tell the world goodnight. Let down your bun, shake out your hair. Breathe in, relax, and dim the light.
Author : Kiyoshi Umeya
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956552798
The Gospel Sounds Like the Witch's Spell is a highly detailed ethnography about how the Jopadhola in eastern Uganda talk about, interpret and cope with death, illness and other misfortunes. The book presents a provocative discussion that critiques the idea of the revival of witchcraft in the neo-liberalised contemporary world, as represented by the 'modernity model of witchcraft', and attempts to formulate a 'spiderweb model' that connects witchcraft to contemporary society in a more complex manner. The book is a unique ethnography of the collective memory of indigenous knowledge and local historicity. The author moves the reader from curse to misfortune to fortune as he plots the notion of 'curse' as deeply embedded in the Adhola way of life. He weaves between culture, religion, state and modernity with lived experience. Did the concept of witchcraft unwittingly endear the Adhola to the Christian way of life because of the presence of the notion of 'curse' in the Bible or make them less susceptible to the vagaries of modernity compared to their neighbours? These are some of the questions that the author puts on the table in a deeply reflective manner. The phenomenon of witchcraft is given an intriguing angle that invites the reader to reexamine earlier anthropological writings on the subject among African peoples.
Author : Suzette Heald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1134665601
'An impressive and meticulously crafted African ethnography, which has theoretical and practical relevance for understanding masculinity and violence in general'- David Parkin, Professor of Anthropology, Cambridge University Manhood and Morality explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda and the moral dilemma faced by men who define themselves by their capacity for violence. Drawing extensively on twenty years of fieldwork and on psychological theory the book covers: circumcision Oedipal feelings witchcraft deviance joking sexuality and ethnicity. This ethnographic study challenges our preconceptions of manhood, especially African virility, inviting a wider re-evaluation of masculinity.
Author : Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822372088
From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as Ezili appears in different guises and characters, so too does Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley in her voice- and genre-shifting, exploratory book Ezili's Mirrors. Drawing on her background as a literary critic as well as her quest to learn the lessons of her spiritual ancestors, Tinsley theorizes black Atlantic sexuality by tracing how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers and performers evoke Ezili. Tinsley shows how Ezili is manifest in the work and personal lives of singers Whitney Houston and Azealia Banks, novelists Nalo Hopkinson and Ana Lara, performers MilDred Gerestant and Sharon Bridgforth, and filmmakers Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire—none of whom identify as Vodou practitioners. In so doing, Tinsley offers a model of queer black feminist theory that creates new possibilities for decolonizing queer studies.
Author : Suzette Heald
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780719025662
Set in the immediate post-independence period in Uganda, this study deals with the local effects of the collapse of State authority and explores the problem of social control and the construction of male gender identity. Of interest to those studying human emotion, and those studying the consequences of the breakdown of political control in modern Africa. First published in 1989, with the subtitle The Sociology of Gisu Violence. This paperback edition contains a brief preface by the author on political changes in the region. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Jordan Matter
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780761189336
Dancers After Dark is an amazing celebration of the human body and the human spirit, as dancers, photographed nude and at night, strike poses of fearless beauty. Without a permit or a plan, Jordan Matter led hundreds of the most exciting dancers in the world out of their comfort zones—not to mention their clothes—to explore the most compelling reaches of beauty and the human form. After all the risk and daring, the result is extraordinary: 300 dancers, 400 locations, more than 150 stunning photographs. And no clothes, no arrests, no regrets. Each image highlights the amazing abilities of these artists—and presents a core message to the reader: Say yes rather than no, and embrace the risks and opportunities that life presents.
