TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexeyeff,Kalissa
TI  - Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Sociality in the Cook Islands 
SN  - 9780824832445
U1  - 306.4/846099623 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Honolulu : 
PB  - University of Hawaii Press, 
KW  - Culture and globalization
KW  - Cook Islands
KW  - Dance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex role
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Map 1. Oceania --; PROLOGUE --; On the Beach: An Introduction --; 1. 'Are Karioi, Houses of Entertainment: Dance in History --; 2. The Politics of Contemporary Dance --; 3. Shy Girls and Show-offs: Dancing Local Values --; 4. Paramount Queens: Femininity and Global/Local Dissonance --; 5. Outing: Dancing after Dark --; 6. Over the Reef: Dance in a Time of Transition --; EPILOGUE --; APPENDIX: COOK ISLANDS DANCE GENRES --; NOTES --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Dancing from the Heart is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conventional views of globalization's impact on indigenous communities, moving beyond diagnoses of cultural erosion and contamination to a grounded exploration of creative agency and vital cultural production. Central to the study is a rich and textured ethnographic account of contemporary Cook Islands dance practice. Based on fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and archival research, it offers an engrossing analysis of how Cook Islands social life is generated through expressive practices. Dance is explored in a variety of settings, including beauty pageants, tourist venues, nightclubs and community celebrations at home and within Cook Islands communities abroad.Contemporary Cook Islands dance practices are also shaped by competing ideas about the past. Debates about precolonial traditions, missionization, and colonialism pervade discussions about dance and expressive culture. Alexeyeff shows how the politics of tradition reflect the competing moral, political, personal, and economic practices of postcolonial Cook Islanders. Throughout the work the stories and voices of individuals are brought to the fore. Their views are juxtaposed with scholarship on tradition, modernity, and social dynamics.Engaging and accessible, Dancing from the Heart illuminates specific and intimate aspects of Cook Islands social life while, at the same time, addressing fundamental questions within anthropology and indigenous, performance, and postcolonial studies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824862121
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824862121
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824862121/original
ER  -