TY  - GEN
T1  - Body, movement, and culture : kinesthetic and visual symbolism in a Philippine community
T2  - Series in contemporary ethnography.
A1  - Ness, Sally Ann
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1992
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44953987
AB  - In Body, Movement, and Culture, Sally Ann Ness provides an original interpretive account of three forms of sinulog dancing practiced in Cebu City in the Philippines: a healing ritual, a dance drama, and a "cultural" exhibition dance. Ness's examination of these dance forms yields rich insights into the cultural predicament of this Philippine city and the way in which kinesthetic and visual symbols interact to create meaning. Ness scrutinizes the patterns of movement, the use of the body and of objects, and the shaping of space common to all three versions of the sinulog. She then relates these elements to the fundamental ways the culture bearers of Cebu City experience their world. For example, she shows how each of the dance forms functions to reinforce class distinctions and to establish a code of authenticated "cultural" action. At the same time, Ness demonstrates, the dances manifest and actualize widely applied notions about the nature of "devotion," "sincerity," "naturalness," and "beauty."Throughout the text, Ness provides a close analysis of movement that is all too often missing from anthropological studies of dance. Most significantly, she works to relate the movements used in dance to everyday movement and to interpret the attitudes and values that are embodied in both choreographed and quotidian movement. Important and illuminating, Body, Movement, and Culture is of particular interest to students and scholars of anthropology, folklore, dance, and Asian studies.
OP  - 292
CN  - GV1796.S57 N47 1992eb
SN  - 058517279X
SN  - 9780585172798
SN  - 9781512818222
SN  - 1512818224
SN  - 0812231104
SN  - 9780812231106
SN  - 0812213831
SN  - 9780812213836
KW  - Sinulog (Dance)
KW  - Folk dancing : Social aspects : Philippines : Cebu City : Case studies.
KW  - Choreography : Social aspects : Philippines : Cebu City : Case studies.
KW  - Danse folklorique : Aspect social : Philippines : Cebu : Études de cas.
KW  - Chorégraphie : Aspect social : Philippines : Cebu : Études de cas.
KW  - GAMES : Reference.
KW  - GAMES : Travel Games.
KW  - Choreography : Social aspects
KW  - Folk dancing : Social aspects
KW  - Philippines : Cebu City
KW  - Volkstanz
KW  - Performativität : Kulturwissenschaften
KW  - Cebu : Stadt
KW  - Rituele dans.
KW  - Choreografie.
KW  - Danse : Aspect religieux.
KW  - Danse traditionnelle : Philippines : Cebu : Conditions sociales : Etude de cas.
KW  - Cebu (Philippines) : Mœurs et coutumes.
KW  - Case studies
ER  -