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

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; 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.