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Dance in West Africa - Analysis and description in relation to aspects of communication theory
Book Cover
1
Imprint
4
Contents
7
1. General introduction
9
2. What is dance?
12
3. Dance and science
18
3.1 Ethnology
18
3.2 The psychological approach
21
3.3 Historical perspectives
22
3.4 Semiotic, linguistic and phenomenological approaches
23
3.5 African dance as a subject of musicology and ethnology
24
4. The Ewe
28
5. The Ewe language
29
6. Religion in Ewe Society
30
7. Preconsiderations in Communication Theory
37
8. Comparison of verbal and non-verbal forms of communication
40
8.1 The visual channel
41
8.2 Confining and containing the object of investigation
44
9. Description of a dance-event from a dance-inherent point of view
46
10. Transcription and notation
48
11. Evaluation of the data
56
11.1 Explanation of material
58
11.2 Evaluation of ‘motion data’
60
11.3 Basic movement
62
11.4 Bodily and spatial orientation
63
11.5 Orientation of observers
64
11.6 Establishing the space
69
11.7 Classification of bodily movements
71
11.8 Corporal segmentation, notation and description thereof
72
12. Describing the various positions
74
13. Discussion of dance data
104
14. From gesture to text
106
Glossary of terminology
119
Bibliography
162
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