Review of Mask of the Spring Water: Dance as a Source of Culture in Africa, by Birgit Åkesson

• 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)