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    is Research Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, Leicester, England. Her publications include Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography (editor, 1999), Aspects of British Calendar Customs (coedited with Juliette Wood, 1993), and chapters on dance and oral history in Dance History: An Introduction (edited by Adshead-Lansdale and Layson, 1983, 1994).    is Professor Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles, and dance research adviser with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb, Croatia. She taught courses in dance ethnology in the former Department of Dance, UCLA, from 1966 to 1994 and has published extensively on social dance changes and their relation to sociocultural transformations.  - is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea. She has conducted research in Indonesia for over twenty years and has published widely on different aspects of performance in Java and on television and cultural transformation in Bali. She also makes ethnographic films, including The Dancer and the Dance. She is currently completing a monograph on Javanese court dance entitled Embodied Communities: Dance Traditions and Change in Java.  .  is Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. She has carried out field research in Tonga, Hawai‘i, and other parts of the Pacific. Her research focuses on the interrelationships between social structure and the arts, especially dance, music, and the visual arts.  . , an aesthetic anthropologist, is editor of the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological Association. 239 He was guest editor of a special issue on Music and Dance for the Anthropology of East Europe Review.  ’ is Reader in Dance Studies at Middlesex University, England . Her doctorate, undertaken at the University of California, Riverside, examines politics of representation in twentieth-century bharata natyam. Her essays have appeared in Asian Theatre Journal, Dance Research Journal, and The Drama Review, and she has a monograph on bharata natyam forthcoming.  , an interdisciplinary scholar, is the author of Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico (2001). Her articles have appeared in Dance Research Journal, TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies, Journal of American Folklore, and other publications.    is Professor of Dance at the University of Hawai‘i at M¯anoa, where she coordinates the dance ethnology program. She has published widely on movement analysis and Korean dance, and her extensive research led to her award-winning book Perspectives on Korean Dance. 240 Contributors ...

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