Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian Candomblé

Dancing Wisdom: Embodied Knowledge in Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahian CandombléConcentrating on the Caribbean Basin and the coastal area of northeast South America, Yvonne Daniel considers three African derived religious systems that rely heavily on dance behavior Haitian Vodou, Cuban Yoruba, and Bahamian Candomble. Combining her background in dance and anthropology to parallel the participant scholar dichotomy inherent to dancing's embodied knowledge, Daniel examines these misunderstood and oppressed performative dances in

The book is an attempt to explain the true origin of the Akan race

"We have a little today than when most of the African countries received independence from their colonial masters

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Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality

" ― Marieke Nijkamp

one of Zimbabwe’s most influential writers

he steered away from issues of race and blackness altogether

Her first novel

Undeniably timely and representative of the necessary work ahead

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages

In this book Zac goes deeper

" —New York Times Book Review