Gesture, Gender, Nation : Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan.

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The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became ind...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doi, Mary Masayo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport : Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.
Temas:
1900-1999
Dance > Social aspects > Uzbekistan.
Women > Uzbekistan > Social conditions.
Danse > Aspect social > Ouzbékistan.
Femmes > Ouzbékistan > Conditions sociales.
Dance > Social aspects
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions
Uzbekistan > Social conditions > 20th century.
Ouzbékistan > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Uzbekistan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became independent? The author 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. The female dancing body became a ""tabula rasa"" upon which the state inscribed, and reinscribed, constru.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN:9780313074028
031307402X

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