Choreographing history - Foster, Susan Leigh (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1995)
Choreographing history / Susan Leigh Foster -- Toward a universal language of motion : reflections on a seventeenth-century muscle man / Stephen Greenblatt -- Interval training / John J. MacAloon -- Christian conversion and the challenge of dance / P. Sterling Stuckey -- Tacit knowledge, courtliness, and the scientist's body / Mario Biagioli -- Music, the Pythagoreans, and the body / Susan McClary -- Agency and history : the demands of dance ethnography / Randy Martin -- Credit, novels, masturbation / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Advertising every body : images from the Japanese modern years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of doctrine : headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach -- Modern dance in the Third Reich : six positions and a coda / Susan A. Manning -- The body's endeavors as cultural practices / Cynthia J. Novack -- Different personas : a history of one's own? / Lena Hammergren -- Meditations on the patriarchal Pythagorean pratfall and the lesbian Siamesian two-step / Sue-Ellen Case -- Thirteen ways of looking at Choreographing writing / Peggy Phelan -- Bodies of evidence : law and order, sexy machines, and the erotics of fieldwork among physicists / Sharon Traweek -- Bodies and their plots / Hayden White.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
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Keywords: Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Symbolic aspects; Historiography; Dance -- Social aspects; Corps humain -- Aspect social; Corps humain -- Aspect symbolique; Danse -- Aspect social; Historiographie; historiography; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Dance -- Social aspects; Historiography; Human body -- Social aspects; Human body -- Symbolic aspects