- Autori:
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ARCANGELI ALESSANDRO
- Titolo:
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Dancing savages: stereotypes and cultural encounters across theAtlantic in the age of European expansion
- Anno:
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2010
- Tipologia prodotto:
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Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
- Tipologia ANVUR:
- Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
- Lingua:
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Inglese
- Formato:
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A Stampa
- Titolo libro:
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Exploring cultural history: essays in honour of Peter Burke
- Casa editrice:
- Ashgate
- ISBN:
- 9780754667506
- Intervallo pagine:
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289-308
- Parole chiave:
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dance, travel literature, cultural encounters, images of the savage, stereotypes of the Other, early modern Africa America and Europe
- Breve descrizione dei contenuti:
- From the editors' Introduction, pp. 26-7: Alessandro Arcangeli considers stereotypes about dancing savages in the early
modern Atlantic encounter. He raises the question of whether the European experience at home, in front of the stage, conditioned how exotic dances were represented, and whether negative prejudices about culturally unsophisticated peoples determined their interpretation. In a hierarchical view of the scale of
civilization, the equation of the dancing peasant and the dancing savage easily became associated by the elite European observer. However, Arcangeli's analysis seeks to separate the empirical description of dancing practices by naked peoples what we might call ethnography from its negative valuation as an example of disorderly behaviour and loss of moral control, which only belongs to specific observers; although the tendency to do this seems to have increased over the period to the times of Lafitau. In effect, the discourse on dancing savages enhanced the
European sense of a growing distance in relation to their own ancient past the construction of the savage led to the construction of the primitive.
- Id prodotto:
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57536
- Handle IRIS:
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11562/343433
- depositato il:
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8 ottobre 2010
- ultima modifica:
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2 novembre 2016
- Citazione bibliografica:
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ARCANGELI ALESSANDRO,
Dancing savages: stereotypes and cultural encounters across theAtlantic in the age of European expansion
Exploring cultural history: essays in honour of Peter Burke
,
Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo e Joan-Pau Rubiés
,
Ashgate
,
2010
,
pp. 289-308
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