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Review of Mask of the Spring Water: Dance as a Source of Culture in Africa, by Birgit Åkesson
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- Granqvist, Raoul J. (författare)
- Umeå universitet,Institutionen för språkstudier
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- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2011
- 2011
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Research in African Literatures. - Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press. - 0034-5210 .- 1527-2044. ; 42:4, s. 150-151
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Abstract
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- The review of Birgit Åkesson's Dance as a Source of Culture in Africa (Dar-es-Salaam: Mkui Na Nyota, 2010; translated from Swedish, Källvattnets mask, by Rachelle Purveyor and Håkan Lövgren) emphasizes the work's groundbreaking and bold attempts at “translating” dance as initiation rites (young people, adults, community) into a hermeneutics of multiple understandings. It is an anti-book where each page may involve separate, but still allied, segments of discourse such as poetry, ethnography, photography. To this review I add a personal note of my working with Åkesson and its importance for me.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- Dance
- Africa
- initiation
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- vet (ämneskategori)
- rec (ämneskategori)
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