The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific

Ginn, Victoria

ISBN 10: 0847811670 / ISBN 13: 9780847811670

Published by Rizzoli Intl Pubns, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990

About this Item

New York: Rizzoli, 1990. First edition. Beautiful black velvet binding, 191 pp. Illustrated throughout in color. Previous owner bookplate and gift inscription, else fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # 016868

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific
• Publisher: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847811670
• ISBN 13: 9780847811670
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • Mythology
  • Arts, Architecture and Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Records traditions of peoples in the Islands of the Pacific

Reviews

Ginn, a New Zealander who spent three years traveling through the regions covered here, depicts in photographs and explains in brief captions dance traditions in her own country, Australia, the Solomon Islands, India, Burma, Thailand, Nepal and Indonesia. We see storytelling dances ranging from the literal to the symbolic, the secular to the religious; many rituals, we're told, are kept vividly alive despite modernization. Through 160 color photos, the reader witnesses startling facial and bodily expressions; dancers portraying deities, heroes and animals; the use of elaborate masks, weapons and other objects in story interpretation. In her exquisite book, Ginn shows the diversity of the societies she visited while revealing their shared interest in preserving their traditional cultures.
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