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Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures

Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures

Chin, Elizabeth

Paperback

Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

Biographies GeneralAnthropology

ISBN10: 193864512X
ISBN13: 9781938645129
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: May 14 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English


Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong, Island Possessed, and Las Danzas de Haiti. Decades before Margaret Mead was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook, Dunham wrote ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn. Katherine Dunham was a dancer. The first person to head a black modern dance company, Dunham toured the world, appeared in numerous films in the United States and abroad, and worked globally to promote the vitality and relevance of African diasporic dance and culture. Dunham was a cultural advisor, teacher, Kennedy Center honoree, and political activist.

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