Midterm

Question 1

Anthropology

Answer 1

Study of origins and development of human societies.

Question 2

Appropriation

Answer 2

The action of taking something away from another for their own use.

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

People forced to adopt customs/norms of a dominant culture.

Question 4

Corporeal

Answer 4

Physical body based experience.

Question 5

Diaspora

Answer 5

Dispersion of people from their traditional homeland or movement of people away from place of origin.

Question 6

Embodiment

Answer 6

The manifestation of an idea or a concept through the body, a physical presentation.

Question 7

Empathic

Answer 7

Being able to share, feel, and understand another.

Question 8

Kinesthetic

Answer 8

Movement, relating to proprioception, awareness of oneself through your center, aware of your body in movement, aware of action.

Question 9

Postpositivist

Answer 9

A response to interactions based on our experiences, perceptions, and personal based experience.

Question 10

Racial Dualism

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Sklar, “Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance”

Question 12

Simas, “We Wait in the Darkness”

Question 13

Dixon Gottschild, “Crossroads, Continuities, and Contradictions”

Question 14

Murphy, “Have They A Right? Nineteenth Century Indian Dance Practices and Federal Policy”

Question 15

Kealiinohomoku, “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance

Question 16

Daly, “Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference”

Question 17

Hazard-Gordon, “Jook House, Honky Tonks, and After-Hours Joints”

Question 18

Graff te al, “On Dance and Social Movements”

Question 19

Sklar’s Five Premises:
What results from dance? Affect of dance? What are the premises?

Answer 19

1. Movement knowledge is a kind of cultural knowledge.
2. Movement knowledge is conceptual and emotional as well as kinesthetic.
3. Movement knowledge is intertwined with other kinds of cultural knowledge.
4. One has to look beyond movement to get at its meaning.
5. Movement is always an immediate corporeal experience.

Question 20

Simas:
Creating a certain piece: …? Aesthetic? What is it?

Answer 20

We Wait in the Darkness,

Question 21

Dixon-Gottschild:
Africanist Movement Principles (5)

Answer 21

Embracing the Conflict:
Polycentrism/Polyrhythm:
High-Affect Juxtaposition:
Ephebism:
The Aesthetic of the Cool:

Question 22

Short Essay: Black Social Interaction/Lifes - Jook Houses, Honky Tonks, After-Hours Joints

Answer 22

The power of dance to create community based on factors of location, jobs, rural areas, economy, cities, etc.