Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252072079)

Concentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African-derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior--Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant/scholar dichotomy inherent to dancing's embodied knowledge, Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in terms of physiology, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, ethics, and aesthetics.

Author: Yvonne Daniel
ISBN-10: 0252072073
ISBN-13: 9780252072079
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2005
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.22w x 0.81d