Moving Beyond the Inscribed Body

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Notes 1. Ann Dils and Ann Cooper Albright, eds., Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2001), p. xiv. 2. Ann Cooper Albright, Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Culture (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1997), p. 10. 3. Elizabeth Grosz, “Feminism and the Crisis of Reason,” in Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (New York: Routledge, 1995). 4. Grosz draws from Luce Irigaray to discuss the need for theoretical models that do not dichotomize the mind/body. Irigaray looks at how women are explicitly positioned as the body in Western epistemologies, and feminist theories that question the body/mind binary owe much to Irigaray's contributions. See, for example, Luce Irigaray, “Divine Woman,” in Sexes and Genealogies, trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). 5. For an example of how the body/mind is theorized in an African culture see Omófolábò [Agrave]jàyí, Yoruba Dance: the Semiotics of Movement and Body Attitude in a Nigerian Culture (Lawrenceville, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1998). This view of the importance of the body in African aesthetics has also been discussed at length by Robert Farris Thompson in African Art in Motion: Icon and Act in the Collection of Katherine Coryton White (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974). 6. See Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). See also Paul Stoller's expansion of Connerton's argument in Embodying Colonial Memories: Spirit Possession, Power and the Hauka in West Africa (New York: Routledge, 1995). 7. Janet Adshead-Lansdale and June Layson, Dance History: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 1996). 8. Theresa Jill Buckland, ed., Dancing From Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). 9. Connerton, p. 96. 10. Michel Foucault, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” in Language, Countermemory, Practice: Selected Essays and interviews by Michel Foucault, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977), p. 154.