DANCING IN THE HOUSE OF KORYAK CULTURE
Abstract: This paper explores two interrelated themes found in the anthropol-ogy of ethnic dance ensembles in Kamchatka, Russia: authenticity and the place of individual in society. I use two elite dance troupes (one professional, the other semi-professional) to analyse local categories of cultural...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.515.9213 2023-05-15T16:58:35+02:00 DANCING IN THE HOUSE OF KORYAK CULTURE Alexander D. King The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.515.9213 http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol41/king.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.515.9213 http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol41/king.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol41/king.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T09:52:31Z Abstract: This paper explores two interrelated themes found in the anthropol-ogy of ethnic dance ensembles in Kamchatka, Russia: authenticity and the place of individual in society. I use two elite dance troupes (one professional, the other semi-professional) to analyse local categories of cultural authenticity. People in Kamchatka were vocal about representations of indigenous dance on the stage and critiqued dance performances on the basis of whether or not they lived up to their expectations for a proper representation of traditional forms. These cri-tiques are consistently made with respect to the representations themselves and are wholly detached from ethnic (or other) identities of the performers. They provide insight into the nature of authorised knowledge of cultural traditions in Kamchatka. The second part of the paper explores the role of children’s dance ensembles in cultural revival movements in small villages. Performing tradi-tional indigenous Kamchatkan dance is not a case of memorising a set stock of moves and positions but entails finding oneself through an individually crea-tive engagement with a style modelled by elders. In both cases, I argue that a semiotics of dance focuses our attention on what symbols do (as opposed to simply what they mean) within a cultural field. Key words: cultural revival movements, culture in Kamchatka, dance ensem-bles, ethnic dance, semiotics of dance Text Kamchatka Koryak Unknown Tive ENVELOPE(12.480,12.480,65.107,65.107) |
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Abstract: This paper explores two interrelated themes found in the anthropol-ogy of ethnic dance ensembles in Kamchatka, Russia: authenticity and the place of individual in society. I use two elite dance troupes (one professional, the other semi-professional) to analyse local categories of cultural authenticity. People in Kamchatka were vocal about representations of indigenous dance on the stage and critiqued dance performances on the basis of whether or not they lived up to their expectations for a proper representation of traditional forms. These cri-tiques are consistently made with respect to the representations themselves and are wholly detached from ethnic (or other) identities of the performers. They provide insight into the nature of authorised knowledge of cultural traditions in Kamchatka. The second part of the paper explores the role of children’s dance ensembles in cultural revival movements in small villages. Performing tradi-tional indigenous Kamchatkan dance is not a case of memorising a set stock of moves and positions but entails finding oneself through an individually crea-tive engagement with a style modelled by elders. In both cases, I argue that a semiotics of dance focuses our attention on what symbols do (as opposed to simply what they mean) within a cultural field. Key words: cultural revival movements, culture in Kamchatka, dance ensem-bles, ethnic dance, semiotics of dance |
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