Hello everybody !
I new to this tribe and need help and advice urgently.
I live in Argentina, Southamerica. I`m a dancer and at a turning point in my life , I realized I have adeep vocation to ethinc, folk, tribal artistic expression , specially related to movement. Here in southamerica there are no dance ethnology career so I have to do it on my own. Can it work out...?
Do I have to study anthropology , even though the career is mostly focused on political matters here in Buenos Aires.
How do I start?
I appreciate and shall be very gratefull on any advice......
Gracias
I new to this tribe and need help and advice urgently.
I live in Argentina, Southamerica. I`m a dancer and at a turning point in my life , I realized I have adeep vocation to ethinc, folk, tribal artistic expression , specially related to movement. Here in southamerica there are no dance ethnology career so I have to do it on my own. Can it work out...?
Do I have to study anthropology , even though the career is mostly focused on political matters here in Buenos Aires.
How do I start?
I appreciate and shall be very gratefull on any advice......
Gracias
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, July 17, 2006 - 5:27 PMSounds like a great idea. The anthropology or ethnography of bodily practices generally is sorely lacking. This has always intrigued me as so many ritual practices and rites involve dance. I imagine there are anthropologists out there doing something similar to what you are interested in. This is always the best place to start as academics are always eager to talk to someone interested i their work - especially work that the braoder anthro community may not embrace. It is amazing how helpful academics can be over the internet - not only references but the advice from someone who has almost invariably encounter similar problems to you.
I will ask around my department if there is anyone that I can refer you to.
Good luck.
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, July 17, 2006 - 5:39 PMthat's exactly what I want to do!
I'm still in a community college at this point though, so I don't have any advice, sorry.
But I do wish you luck!
well, more than that, I wish you success. ^_^
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, July 17, 2006 - 9:06 PMI recall hearing about a dance ethongraphy program. It might have been at UC San Francisco. -
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, July 17, 2006 - 10:05 PMI think SF State does too.. Not only is the Anthro. department very good, but so is the dance department. The Head of the Dance dept. is actually a dance anthropologist. She actually goes out and does her own research around the world. I know they offer one class in Anthropology of dance, and of course you can develope your own program. I haven't actually spoken to any professors there yet, but the anthro. head and dance head at my school both say wonderful things about it. -
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, July 17, 2006 - 10:05 PMSan Francisco State University, that is.
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Re: Want to be a dance ethnographer...Help..how do I start ?
Mon, August 7, 2006 - 1:12 PMI always thought UCSF made itself only a graduate school. Wouldn't going there for a program be precluded by finding a similar program at the undergraduate level?
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