Gesture, Gender, Nation

Gesture, Gender, Nation
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 9780313074028
ISBN-13 : 031307402X
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Book Synopsis Gesture, Gender, Nation by : Mary M. Doi

Download or read book Gesture, Gender, Nation written by Mary M. Doi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-11-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national dancers of Uzbekistan are almost always female. In a society that has been Muslim for nearly seven hundred years, why and how did unveiled female dancers become a beloved national icon during the Soviet period? Also, why has their popularity continued after the Uzbek republic became independent? The author argues that dancers, as symbolic girls or unmarried females in the Uzbek kinship system, are effective mediators between extended kin groups, and the Uzbek nation-state. The female dancing body became a tabula rasa upon which the state inscribed, and reinscribed, constructions of Uzbek nationalism. Doi describes the politics of gender in households as well as the dominant kinship idioms in Uzbek society. She traces the rise of national dance as a profession for women during the Soviet period, prior to which women wore veils and kept purdah. The final chapter examines emerging notions of Uzbek, as regional and national groups contest the notion through debates about what constitutes authentic Uzbek dance. Doi concludes with a comparative discussion of the power of marginality, which enabled Uzbeks to maintain a domain where Uzbek culture and history could be honored, within the Russocentric hegemony of the Soviet state.


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