Potlatch and Powwow: Dynamics of Culture through Lives Lived Dancing

Autor/inn/en	Andrews, Tracy J.; Olney, Jon
Titel	Potlatch and Powwow: Dynamics of Culture through Lives Lived Dancing
Quelle	In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 31 (2007) 1, S.63-108 (46 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-6463
Schlagwörter	Cultural Maintenance; Social Sciences; Dance; American Indian Culture; Tribes; American Indians; Social Influences; Canada Natives; Cultural Activities; Ceremonies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Tanz; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft; American Indian; Indianer; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural activity; Kulturelle Aktivität; Zeremoniell
Abstract	In collaboration with the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations' U'mista Cultural Centre and the Nez Perce Tribe's Cultural Resources Program, this study addresses aspects of the recent history and contemporary roles of dance in their societies from the dancers' perspectives. The social science literature commonly documents the cultural history of dances and their performance within one or associated Canadian First Nations and Native American societies or considers broader issues of Native peoples' sociocultural identity and politics that event participants and attendees may be expressing. This study focuses on dance from the dancer's experiential level, while their bodies become the locus of complex levels of meanings. This study includes two groups from very different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and the contexts of Nez Perce powwow and Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch also are quite distinctive. However, addressing what is meaningful to the dancers reveals commonalities as well as variation in issues of Native peoples' cultural maintenance, adaptation, and innovation, while contributing insights on identity issues as the dancers' individual experiences are embedded in wider sociopolitical contexts. (Contains 1 table and 73 notes.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Indian Studies Center at UCLA. 3220 Campbell Hall, Box 951548, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1548. Tel: 310-825-7315; Fax: 310-206-7060; e-mail: sales@aisc.ucla.edu; Web site: http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/aicrj.html
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10