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Contents
- CHAPTER 1 India: Devotion, dance, and mythology
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Bharatanatyam: concertizing a sacred form from South India
- 1.2 Exploration: excerpt from Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India, by Davesh Soneji
- 1.3 Kathak: entertainment for Hindu Maharajas and Muslim Moghuls
- 1.4 Kathakali: narrative dance theater from Kerala
- 1.4 Exploration: excerpt from "Who Wears the Skirts in Kathakali?" by Diane Daugherty and Marlene Pitkow
- CHAPTER 2 Bali and Java: from temple, to village, to court
- 2.1 Overview
- 2.2 The baris dancers: bodyguards of Balinese gods
- 2.3 The sanghyang dedari: child mediums to the spirit realm
- 2.4 The legong: when sacred dances become secular
- 2.5 The calonarang : keeping a community in balance
- 2.5 Exploration: excerpt from "Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali," by Ron Jenkins
- 2.6 Javanese bedhaya: celestial palace dance
- 2.6 Exploration: excerpt from The Dance that Makes You Vanish, by Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- CHAPTER 3 Cambodia and China: Dance as a political tool
- 3.1 Overview
- 3.2 Cambodia's royal dancers: survivors of the Khmer Rouge
- 3.2 Exploration: excerpt from "Mediating Cambodian History, the Sacred, and the Earth," by Toni Shapiro-Phim
- 3.3 Jingju: Chinese Beijing Opera--stylized beauty, staged
- 3.4 Mao's Cultural Revolution and The Red Detachment of Women
- 3.4 Exploration: excerpt from The Story of Dai Ailain, by Richard Glasstone
- CHAPTER 4 Japanese noh, kabuki, and butoh: Entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels
- 4.1 Overview
- 4.2 Noh theater: entertaining samurai
- 4.2 Exploration: excerpt from "Import/Export: Artistic Osmosis Between Japan, Europe, and the United States" by Patricia Leigh Beaman
- 4.3 From pleasure women's kabuki to Grand Kabuki Theater
- 4.4 Butoh: Japan's dance of darkness
- 4.4 Exploration: excerpt from "Selections from the Prose of Kazuo Ohno" by Noriko Maehata
- CHAPTER 5 Hawai'i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea: Guardians of culture
- 5.1 Overview
- 5.2 Hula kahiko: from Hawaiian royal courts to the global stage
- 5.3 The Maori haka: a dance of defiance, a dance of welcome
- 5.3 Exploration: excerpt from "Ko Mitimiti Ahau, I am (of) the Place, Mitimiti" by Jack Gray
- 5.4 The gisalo: pathos and pain of the Bosavi-Kaluli of Papua New Guinea
- 5.4 Exploration: excerpt from The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers by Edward Schieffelin
- CHAPTER 6 Africa: Fertility festivals, death ceremonies, and ancestor worship
- 6.1 Overview
- 6.2 The Geerewol Festival of the Wodaabe: judging male charm and beauty
- 6.2 Exploration: excerpt from Nomads Who Cultivate Beauty by Mette Bovin
- 6.3 The Dogon dama ceremony: a collective funeral ritual
- 6.4 The Mossi: yaaba soore--the path of the ancestors
- 6.4 Exploration: excerpt from Land of the Flying Masks by Christopher Roy
- 6.5 The Egungun of Yorubaland: the ancestors descend
- CHAPTER 7 North Africa, Turkey, and Spain: Healing, worship, and expression
- 7.1 Overview
- 7.2 The zar ritual: ridding women of troublesome jinn
- 7.2 Exploration: excerpt from Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan by Janice Boddy
- 7.3 The sema: mystical dance of the Sufi Mevlevi dervish
- 7.3 Exploration: excerpt from The City of the Sultan by Julia Pardoe
- 7.4 Flamenco: a manifestation of cultures and passions
- CHAPTER 8 Native America, the Caribbean, and South America: Resistance, spirituality, and spectacle
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Political resistance: the Lakota Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee, 1890 and 1973
- 8.2 Exploration: excerpt from Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians, by James Welch and Paul Stekler
- 8.3 Haitian vodou: an Afro-Caribbean spiritual pathway
- 8.3 Exploration: excerpt from "Afro-Caribbean Spirituality: A Haitian Case Study" by Karen McCarthy Brown
- 8.4 Tango: from Argentinian dens of iniquity, to Parisian dance halls, and back
- Glossary
- Index