Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1974. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-47).

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Dance. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-122). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32012

Thesis (M.A. Maori)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed June 10, 2008) Glossary (Kupu tawhito, kupu haka), p. [16-22]. Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-142).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 71-75).

This thesis explores Eskimo dance and the social relationships surrounding the dance activities among Yupiget on St. Lawrence Island and Iñupiat in Barrow, Alaska. Based on one year of fieldwork, I set out to understand how Eskimo dance is at the centre of social relationships with the environment, among people, between humans and animals, and between Eskimo and the Euro-American societies. I also examine how the nature and structure of Eskimo dance are connected to cultural politics, wrought by political, economic and historical events. St. Lawrence Island and Barrow are both well known as ‘dance’ communities among Alaskan Eskimos, where the residents did not give up on dancing despite various pressures throughout history, and legendary composers and performers keep attracting a number of Eskimo audiences. Both communities have long been enjoying Eskimo dances, which combine the cultural aesthetics with abstract and embodied knowledge of their Arctic environment in a harmony of movements and sounds. In the contemporary context, Eskimo dance performances have also become a way of presenting ethnic identity, interpreting tradition, and representing culture in political discourse, particularly in the speech community where people do not speak their heritage language in daily life. Yupik and Iñupiaq communities, which vary in language maintenance, post-colonial history, and economic development, have different attitudes toward their own traditions and cultures. This is reflected in the fact that the presentations and meanings of contemporary Eskimo dance are developing differently between St. Lawrence Island and Barrow. I argue that Eskimo dance shows conservatism in artistic form incorporating creativities and improvisation among performers. It also presents continuity of the emotional and social power that dance performances have.

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Imagine a lilly pond. Each lilly floating independently. The individual lilly is framed by the water that surrounds it. The lilly pond becomes apparent by the presence and absence of lillies. This thesis is a compilation of diverse floating articles. Not everything has been covered. I hope that the gaps revealed illuminate the edges of the work. Different writing styles have been adopted in an attempt to get closer to the complexity and ephemerality of the research -- research that has taken place in the dancing body. In presenting the written material this way, I wish to take the reader on a journey -- an experiential journey into the dance -- one that is 'like' the dance rather than an extracted description of it. I hope that the reader will 'come to their senses' and feel the materiality of the dance as I have studied it and known it in my body and with-in the bodies of the other two dancers. The framework for the research in the body has been the integration of the histories collected in our bodies -- practices, trainings, country and culture -- all of which continue to slip and slide, continually re-forming themselves and re-inventing the dancing and not-dancing bodies that we are. / Master of Arts (Hons)

Thesis (M.A.)--B.Y.U. Dept. of Recreation Education.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 1998. Graduate Programme in Dance. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 116-122). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ27342.