An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance

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An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance

It can be summarized in the way that it is good anthropology to think of ballet as a form of ethnic dance. Currently, that idea is unacceptable to most Western dance scholars. This lack of agreement shows clearly that something is amiss in the communication of ideas between the scholars of dance and those of anthropology, and this paper is an attempt to bridge that communication ...