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"Women’s bodies, dancing bodies: in this haunting book, they lead us to political terror and its erasure in safely contained cultural performance. The ghosts of dancers killed in state-sponsored anti-communist frenzy shimmer before us, their movements precisely replicated by their state-cleansed replacements. Memoir here winds in and out of cultural critique; we are led up to that vanishing point where power and violence tear their way into the heart." —Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection


Table of Contents


Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dancing on the Mass Grave


1. To Remember Differently: Paradoxical Statehood and Preserved Value

2. What Is Left: The Fabricated and the Illicit

3. Historicizing Violence: Memory and the Transmission of the Aesthetic

4. Staging Alliances: Cambodia as Cultural Mirror

5.Violence and Mobility: Autoethnography of Coming and Going


Notes

Index


The Dance That Makes You Vanish Cultural

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 01/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780816679942, 978-0816679942
      ISBN10: 0816679940
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      Asian history Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Women’s bodies, dancing bodies: in this haunting book, they lead us to political terror and its erasure in safely contained cultural performance. The ghosts of dancers killed in state-sponsored anti-communist frenzy shimmer before us, their movements precisely replicated by their state-cleansed replacements. Memoir here winds in and out of cultural critique; we are led up to that vanishing point where power and violence tear their way into the heart." —Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection


      Table of Contents


      Contents


      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Dancing on the Mass Grave


      1. To Remember Differently: Paradoxical Statehood and Preserved Value

      2. What Is Left: The Fabricated and the Illicit

      3. Historicizing Violence: Memory and the Transmission of the Aesthetic

      4. Staging Alliances: Cambodia as Cultural Mirror

      5.Violence and Mobility: Autoethnography of Coming and Going


      Notes

      Index


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