Antropolog czyta taniec Alfred Gell i rytuał ida
Antropologist reads dance. Alfred Gell and ida ritual

Author(s): Anna Kawalec
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: My paper Antropologist reads dance. Alfred Gell and ida ritual discusses the conception of dance elaborated by one of the world’s most famous but controversial social anthropologists of the present time. His conception of dance is the initial stage of his research on the issue of art within the domain of anthropology, which was finalized in his last monograph Art and Agency. Gell’s idea of dance is consistently semantic and communicative, although unrealized in the initial context of his work, namely structuralism. The researcher uses the phenomenological tradition (esp. Husserl), developed by him and modified in order to adapt it to the theory of art, which was helpful in answering the basic and maximalist questions, as e.g.: Why do Umeda (people) dance? The context of understanding the problem, as well as the outline of the answer, constitute the content of the presented statements.

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