A Touch of Innocence [Signed]

London: Cassell, 1960. First UK Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket by architecture and Blues historian Paul Oliver;312pp. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges with a short closed tear to top edge of front panel; spine sunned. Mild shelfwear to boards; old staining to top edge; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.Signed by Katherine Dunham ontitle page. Dunham had a whole career conductingground-breaking research in anthropology at the University of Chicago before pivoting to dance. Indeed her decolonizing work studying the African diaspora in the Caribbean helped inform her long and lauded career as a performer. As she said in a 2002 interview: "My problem—my strong drive at that time was to remain in this academic position that anthropology gave me, and at the same time continue with this strong drive for motion—rhythmic motion." A scarce mid-career memoir from a towering figure in African-American modern dance and dance anthropology.