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Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative Ser.: Choreographing History by Susan Leigh Foster (1995, Trade Paperback)
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Choreographing History. assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches. [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves.".
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253209358
ISBN-139780253209351
eBay Product ID (ePID)55798
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameChoreographing History
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistoriography, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Dance / General
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
AuthorSusan Leigh Foster
Subject AreaPerforming Arts, Social Science, Science, History
SeriesUnnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.5 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN94-003622
Dewey Edition20
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.4
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments An Introduction to Moving Bodies Choreographing History--Susan Leigh Foster Resurrecting Historical Bodies Toward a Universal Language of Motion: Reflections on a Seventeenth-Century Muscle Man--Stephen Greenblatt Interval Training--John MacAloon Bodily Interventions into Academic Disciplines Tacit Knowledge, Courtliness, and the Scientist's Body--Mario Biagioli Music, the Pythagoreans, and the Body--Susan McClary Agency and History: The Demands of Dance Ethnography--Randy Martin Moving Theory Across Bodies of Practice Credit, Novels, Masturbation--Thomas W. Laqueur Advertising Every Body: Images from the Japanese Modern Years--Miriam Silverberg Bodies of Doctrine: Headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras--Joseph Roach Historians as Bodies in Motion Modern Dance in the Third Reich: Six Positions and a Coda--Susan A. Manning The Body's Endeavors as Cultural Practices--Cynthia J. Novak Different Personas: A History of One's Own?--Lena Hammergren Embodying Theory Meditations on the Patriarchal Pythagorean Pratfall and the Lesbian Siamesia Two-Step--Sue-Ellen Case Thirteen Ways of Looking at Choreographing Writing--Peggy Phelan Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork among Physicists--Sharon Traweek Bodies and Their Plots--Hayden White Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Synopsis"... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." --Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." --Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." --Dance Chronicle "... an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." --Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history., ". . . I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." --Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History . . . assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches . . . [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." --Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." --Dance Chronicle ". . . [an] important step. . . in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." --Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history., --Theatre JournalHistorians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.|9780253209351|
LC Classification NumberGN298.C48 1995
