Description: Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist. One of the first African Americans to obtain a degree in anthropology, she conducted groundbreaking fieldwork in Jamaica and Haiti in the early 1930s and wrote several books including Journey to Accompong, Island Possessed, and Las Danzas de Haiti. Decades before Margaret Mead was publishing for popular audiences in Redbook, Dunham wrote ethnographically informed essays for Esquire and Mademoiselle under the pseudonym Kaye Dunn. Katherine Dunham was a dancer. The first person to head a black modern dance company, Dunham toured the world, appeared in numerous films in the United States and abroad, and worked globally to promote the vitality and relevance of African diasporic dance and culture. Dunham was a cultural advisor, teacher, Kennedy Center honoree, and political activist. This book explores Katherine Dunham’s contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other. Drawing from Dunham’s holistic vision, the contributors to this book began to experiment with how to bring the practice of art back into the discipline of anthropology—and vice versa. “Performing arts, engagement, activism, and ethnographic witnessing, participation, and interpretation were all integral elements of Katherine Dunham’s praxis as an anthropologist, a choreographer, a concert and cinema dancer, and a public intellectual. Her capacity to move back and forth across boundaries of culture, nation, and disciplinarity allowed her to make a profound contribution to a multisensory, embodied epistemology. This much-anticipated book brings Dunham’s remarkable nexus of theory, method, and evidence to anthropology’s center stage.” —Faye V. Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age and President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.