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

Name: Dancing with the Virgin Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico
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ISBN: 9780520227910

ISBN-10: 0520227913

ISBN-13: 9780520227910

Edition: 2001

Authors: Deidre Sklar

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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…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 241
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English