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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450123203321

Autore

Doi Mary Masayo

Titolo

Gesture, gender, nation [[electronic resource] ] : dance and social change in Uzbekistan / / Mary Masayo Doi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2001

ISBN

1-4294-7301-0

0-313-07402-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

Dance - Social aspects - Uzbekistan

Women - Uzbekistan - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Uzbekistan Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; Contents; Introduction; 1 Gender Kinship and Nationalism; 2 Taboo Breakers The Early Soviet Years 1924 1942; 3 The War Years: "We Made Dance a Beautiful Diamond" circa 1943 1953; 4 From Genealogical to Generic circa 1954 1990; 5 Independence 1991 1994; Conclusion It Is We Who Own Uzbekistan Now; Further Reading; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The national dancers in Uzbekistan are almost always female. This work argues that dancers, as symbolic ""girls"" or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended kin groups, and the Uzbek nation-state.