ABOUT THIS BOOK

This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. Reaching beyond the typically Eurocentric view of dance, Dancing from Past to Present opens a world of debate over the role dance plays in forming and expressing cultural identities around the world.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Theresa Jill Buckland is Research Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. She is editor of Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography, coeditor of Aspects of British Calendar Customs, and she has contributed chapters on dance and oral history to Dance History: An Introduction.

REVIEWS

"Dancing from Past to Present stands alone as an entry to dance and ethnographic studies. An exemplary offering of interdisciplinary scholarship that deserves attention from historians and practitioners."—Thomas DeFrantz, editor of Dancing Many Drums

"A wonderful collage of enquiries and a remarkable view into the discourses of dance history and dance ethnography."—Mohd Anis Md Nor, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

"An inspiring collection of case studies in a series of impressive, long-term ethnographic inquiries. Dancing from Past to Present brings historiography of dance into colourful and exciting new landscapes, adding new territories to our knowledge."—Professor Egil Bakka, Program for dance studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents<<au: We have deleted the list of illustrations, which is not necessary for an edited volume>>
Acknowledgments		000
Introduction		000
1. Dancing Across History and Ethnography: Frameworks, Sources, and Identities of Past and Present
Theresa Jill Buckland		000
2. Anthropological and Historical Discourses on Dances and Dancing in Tonga
Adrienne L. Kaeppler		000
3. Constructing a Classical Tradition: Javanese Court Dance in Indonesia
Felicia Hughes-Freeland		000
4. Utopia, Eutopia and E.U.-topia: Performance and Memory in Former Yugoslavia
Lynn D. Maners		000
5. Qualities of Memory: Two Dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico
Deidre Sklar		000
6. Dancing through History and Ethnography: An Inquiry into Bharata Natyam's Performance of the Past<<au: Please add country to title/subtitle as in other chapters>>
Janet O¿Shea		000
7. Interpreting the Historical Record: Issues in Using Images of Korean Dance for Understanding the Past
Judy Van Zile		000
8. Documentation of a Romani Dance Event in Skopje, Macedonia: Evolution of Research Strategies, Cultural Identities and Technologies
Elsie Ivancich Dunin		000
9. On the Significance of Being Traditional: Authentic Selves and Others in Researching Late Twentieth-Century Northwest English Morris Dancing
Theresa Jill Buckland		000
Selected Further Reading		000
Contributors		000
Index		000

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