Dancing from past to present : nation, culture, identities / edited by Theresa Jill Buckland.

Madison, Wis. : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- Dancing across history and ethnography : frameworks, sources, and identities of past and present / Theresa Jill Buckland -- Anthropological and historical discourses on dances and dancing in Tonga / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Constructing a classical tradition : Javanese court dance in Indonesia / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Utopia, Eutopia and E.U.-topia : performance and memory in former Yugoslavia / Lynn D. Maners -- Qualities of memory : two dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico / Deidre Sklar -- Dancing through history and ethnography : an inquiry into Bharata Natyam's performance of the past / Janet O'Shea -- Interpreting the historical record : issues in using images of Korean dance for understanding the past / Judy Van Zile -- Documentation of a Romani dance event in Skopje, Macedonia : evolution of research strategies, cultural identities and technologies / Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- On the significance of being traditional : authentic selves and others in researching late twentieth-century northwest English Morris dancing / Theresa Jill Buckland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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