Dance and the Body Politic in Nothern Greece
- Princeton University Press, 1990
- 256
An excellent analysis of the social construction of notions of person, gender, and community in a northern Greek Town. Preface, Entering the Dance, Place and Distinctions and Identities, Gender and Household and Community, Everyday Sociability as Gendered, Dancing Signs: Deciphering the Body in Wedding Celebrations, The Orchestration of Association in formal Evening Dances, Male Prestige and the Eruption of Conflict, Ambivalent Pleasures: Dance as a Problem for Women, Aphrodite's Tables: Breakdown and Blame and Female Sexuality, Because of the Dance, Index.