Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian CandombléUniversity of Illinois Press, 2005 - 324 pages 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 Candomblé. 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. "Dancing Wisdom offers the rare opportunity to see into the world of mystical spiritual belief as articulated and manifested in ritual by dance. Whether it is a Cuban Yoruba dance ritual, slave Ring Shout or contemporary Pentecostal Holy Ghost possession dancing shout, we are able to understand the relationship with spirit through dancing with the Divine. Yvonne Daniel's work synthesizes the cognitive empirical objectivity of an anthropologist with the passionate storytelling of a poetic artist in articulating how dance becomes prayer in ritual for Africans of the Diaspora." --Leon T. Burrows, Protestant Chaplain, Smith College' |
Table des matières
TWO Body Knowledge at the Crossroads | 51 |
THREE Days of Remembrance | 94 |
FIVE Praise Dance and Liturgical Orders | 148 |
SIX Informal Learning with Haitian Lwas | 163 |
SEVEN Informal Learning with Bahian Orixás | 188 |
EIGHT Formal Learning with Cuban Orichas | 205 |
NINE The Dancing Body and Embodied Wisdom | 246 |
Notes | 281 |
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