Gesture, gender, nation : dance and social change in Uzbekistan / / Mary Masayo Doi
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| Autore: |
Doi Mary Masayo
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| Titolo: |
Gesture, gender, nation : dance and social change in Uzbekistan / / Mary Masayo Doi
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| Pubblicazione: | Westport, Conn., : Bergin & Garvey, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 151 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/84 |
| Soggetto topico: | Dance - Social aspects - Uzbekistan |
| Women - Uzbekistan - Social conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Uzbekistan Social conditions 20th century |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gesture, gender, nation |
| ISBN: | 1-4294-7301-0 |
| 0-313-07402-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783088503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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