Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico

Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico

Sklar, Deidre

Paperback

DanceAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520227913
ISBN13: 9780520227910
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 16 2001
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
Deidre Sklar went to Tortugas, New Mexico, where an annual three-day fiesta honors the Virgin of Guadalupe, in order to seek answers to her questions about community, performance, and the embodiment of belief. How do we know what we know? Where do we belong, and how do we fit in? Sklar's own background and learned values form the conscious, constantly challenged raw material for the undertaking, and the intimate language of the body and sensation is her medium. Her ten-year study and movement analysis of the sacred dances and the backstage work involved in the festival take her deep into the life of the community, as dancer, participant-observer, and self-interrogating woman merge in a vividly narrated experience of communal sacred time.

Also in

Anthropology

View All