the politics of appropriateness and appropriation: recontextualizing women's dance in urban Senegal

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Recontextualized in various settings, the dances and poems that women perform in urban Senegal reveal a struggle over shifting notions of appropriateness. Set apart from everyday practice, they are occasions for reflexive awareness, not only for dancers and their audiences, but also for the ethnographer, particularly in the role of participant‐performer. [dance, gender, performance, hegemony, reflexivity, Senegal]
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