Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek
dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving
rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. Here
Jane Cowan explores how the politics of gender is articulated
through the body at these culturally central, yet until now
ethnographically neglected, celebrations in a class-divided
northern Greek town. Portraying the dance-event as both a highly
structured and dynamic social arena, she approaches the human body
not only as a sign to be deciphered but as a site of experience and
an agent of practice.
In describing the multiple ideologies of person, gender, and
community that townspeople embody and explore as they dance, Cowan
presents three different settings: the traditional wedding
procession, the "Europeanized" formal evening dance of local civic
associations, and the private party. She examines the practices of
eating, drinking, talking, gifting, and dancing, and the verbal
discourse through which celebrants make sense of each other's
actions. Paying particular attention to points of tension and
moments of misunderstanding, she analyzes in what ways these social
situations pose different problems for men and women.
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