This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites social status transition rites and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s the essays present descripti... Lees meer.
Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influences on Wagner the revolutionary who turned the world of opera upside down. Chaos and Dancing Star discusses the anarchist revolutionary feminist and nationalist influen... Lees meer.
Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.
This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in... Lees meer.
A lovely collection of games based on movement for use with young children. Children love these games for the pure joy of movement. In their dancing rhythms adults also will find that the active involvement of the hands with the tongue revives the whole human bei... Lees meer.
This book explores cosmological concepts and ritual actions of the Ga people of southeastern Ghana through case studies of calendrical agricultural rites social status transition rites and redressive rites. Based on fieldwork in the 1960s the essays present descripti... Lees meer.
This is really one story in three parts. First we have the high school philosophy teacher who has to resign his position much as Aristotle had to when the authorities came looking for him. Part two is of an indigent Irish family who emigrate from the Emerald Isle to the... Lees meer.
Bill Potter is charged with murdering his Friday night squeeze. Michael Jellico Bill s bumbling lawyer steps out of a dead-end job of contracts and leases to save Bill from being strapped to Old Spanky. Bill s wife returns after a twenty year absence to muddy the wa... Lees meer.
The story of a bank robber who finds his moment of epiphany in a shack with six lost little boys. He goes home after twenty years on the lamb to have Christmas with his family and to right his wrongs. But he finds his past is in hot pursuit and the new life he finds is... Lees meer.
Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City in the 1940s as sites in which dance artists and audiences contested what it meant to practice globalism in mid-twentieth-century America. Debates over globalism in dance proxied larger... Lees meer.
Dancing With The Dog is a collection of behind the scenes travel incidents in six Latin American nations over a period of two years. It is a reflection on the confluence of the modern medieval and pre-historic as they express themselves in the present moment... Lees meer.
America in the early 1940s is breaking free from the stranglehold of the Great Depression but a world wide war is looming on the horizon. In the rural community of Dancing Deer people are worried but David Calhoun has his own problems. He hates the banker. His whole fa... Lees meer.