Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan

by Mary Masayo Doi

The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became independent? The author argues that dancers, as symbolic girls or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898257
• ISBN13: 9780897898256
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.5"