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the politics of appropriateness and appropriation: recontextualizing women's dance in urban Senegal
Author(s) -
HEATH DEBORAH
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1994.21.1.02a00050
Subject(s) - appropriation , reflexivity , dance , hegemony , ethnography , performing arts , gender studies , sociology , politics , poetry , everyday life , aesthetics , visual arts , art , anthropology , political science , literature , epistemology , philosophy , law
Recontextualized in various settings, the dances and poems that women perform in urban Senegal reveal a struggle over shifting notions of appropriateness. Set apart from everyday practice, they are occasions for reflexive awareness, not only for dancers and their audiences, but also for the ethnographer, particularly in the role of participant‐performer. [dance, gender, performance, hegemony, reflexivity, Senegal]