Midterm Flashcards
Anthropology
Study of origins and development of human societies.
Appropriation
The action of taking something away from another for their own use.
Assimilation
People forced to adopt customs/norms of a dominant culture.
Corporeal
Physical body based experience.
Diaspora
Dispersion of people from their traditional homeland or movement of people away from place of origin.
Embodiment
The manifestation of an idea or a concept through the body, a physical presentation.
Empathic
Being able to share, feel, and understand another.
Kinesthetic
Movement, relating to proprioception, awareness of oneself through your center, aware of your body in movement, aware of action.
Postpositivist
A response to interactions based on our experiences, perceptions, and personal based experience.
Racial Dualism
The life amongst 2 different races and how life experiences, among other things, contribute to how the world sees them and they see the world.
Sklar, “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance”
Simas, “We Wait in the Darkness”
Dixon Gottschild, “Crossroads, Continuities, and Contradictions”
Murphy, “Have They A Right? Nineteenth Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy”
Kealiinohomoku, “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance
Daly, “Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference”
Hazard-Gordon, “Jook House, Honky Tonks, and After-Hours Joints”
Graff te al, “On Dance and Social Movements”
Sklar’s Five Premises:
What results from dance? Affect of dance? What are the premises?
- Movement knowledge is a kind of cultural knowledge.
- Movement knowledge is conceptual and emotional as well as kinesthetic.
- Movement knowledge is intertwined with other kinds of cultural knowledge.
- One has to look beyond movement to get at its meaning.
- Movement is always an immediate corporeal experience.
Simas:
Creating a certain piece: …? Aesthetic? What is it?
We Wait in the Darkness,
Dixon-Gottschild:
Africanist Movement Principles (5)
Embracing the Conflict:
Polycentrism/Polyrhythm:
High-Affect Juxtaposition:
Ephebism:
The Aesthetic of the Cool:
Short Essay: Black Social Interaction/Lifes - Jook Houses, Honky Tonks, After-Hours Joints
The power of dance to create community based on factors of location, jobs, rural areas, economy, cities, etc.
