Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion

by Susan Leigh Foster

Because dance materializes through and for people, because we learn to dance from others and often present dance to others, the moment of its transmission is one of dance's central and defining features. Valuing Dance looks at the occasion when dancing passes from one person to another as an act of exchange, one that is redolent with symbolic meanings, including those associated with its history and all the labor that has gone into its making. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190933984
• ISBN13: 9780190933982
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"