Barbara Browning

Infectious Rhythm

Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780415919807
• ISBN-10: 0415919800
• Artikelnr.: 21706409

Autorenporträt

Barbara Browning is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. She is the author of Samba: Resistance in Motion.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Babaluaiyé
Chapter 2 Compact World
Chapter 3 Lutte contre les moustiques
Chapter 4 African Medicine Men
Chapter 5 Voodoo Economics
Chapter 6 Mixing Bloods
Chapter 7 Cyberspace, Voodoo Sex, and Retroviral Identity
Chapter 8 Benetton
Chapter 9 Penetrable Selves ("
Paris Is Burning")
Chapter 10 The Closed Body
NOTES
INDEX