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Katherine Dunham : recovering an anthropological legacy, choreographing ethnographic futures

Title
Katherine Dunham : recovering an anthropological legacy, choreographing ethnographic futures / edited by Elizabeth Chin.
Publication
Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
Chin, Elizabeth, 1963-
Description
xxii, 164 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong, Island Possessed, and Las Danzas de Haiti. Decades before Margaret Mead was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook, Dunham wrote ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn. Katherine Dunham was a dancer. The first person to head a black modern dance company, Dunham toured the world, appeared in numerous films in the United States and abroad, and worked globally to promote the vitality and relevance of African diasporic dance and culture. Dunham was a cultural advisor, teacher, Kennedy Center honoree, and political activist. This book explores Katherine Dunham's contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other. Drawing from Dunham's holistic vision, the contributors began to experiment with how to bring the practise of art back into the discipline of anthropology--and vice versa.--Publisher description.
Series Statement
School of American Research advanced seminar series
Uniform Title
School of American Research advanced seminar series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Contents
Biographies / Katherine Dunham, Ronald Marshall, and Anindo Marshall -- Research-to-performance methodology : embodying knowledge and power from the field to the concert stage / Rosemarie A. Roberts -- Katherine Dunham's first journey in anthropology / A. Lynn Bolles -- Katherine Dunham and the folklore performance movement in post-US occupation Haiti / Kate Ramsey -- Notes on Floyd's guitar blues : Katherine Dunham's costumes and musical production / Ronald Marshall -- Dunham technique : anthropological politics of dancing through ethnography / Elizabeth Chin -- Katherine Dunham made me... / Dána-Ain Davis -- In the Dunham way : sewing (sowing) the seams of dance, anthropology, and youth arts activism / Aimee Meredith Cox.
Call Number
Sc E 15-712
ISBN
  • 9781938645129 (alk. paper)
  • 193864512X (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2013021504
  • 40023905276
OCLC
846846949
Title
Katherine Dunham : recovering an anthropological legacy, choreographing ethnographic futures / edited by Elizabeth Chin.
Publisher
Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
School of American Research advanced seminar series
School of American Research advanced seminar series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Added Author
Chin, Elizabeth, 1963- editor.
Other Standard Identifier
40023905276
Research Call Number
Sc E 15-712
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