A01=Deidre Sklar
american southwest
anthropology
Author_Deidre Sklar
backstage
belief
belonging
body
Category=JBSL
Category=JHMC
celebration
communal sacred time
community
dance
embodiment
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femininity
festival
fiesta
folk practices
folk religion
folklore
history
indigenous culture
indigenous peoples
indin
indin culture
indin pueblos
mexico
movement
new mexico
nonfiction
performance
performing arts
religion
religious belief
rite
ritual
sacred dance
sensation
spanish villages
technical theater
tortugas
virgin of guadalupe
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520227910
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 vividly narrated experience of 'communal sacred time.'
Deidre Sklar is Research Associate at Oberlin College.
