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Communicating Romantic Intentions through Social Dancing

This is an analysis of how young Latino men and their female dance partners
communicate their romantic intentions while dancing, or perhaps through dancing. I find that apparent ethnic and class distinctions
and levels of romantic interest affect the way these people dance, especially in three key indices of romantic intentions: eye contact, hand placement, and hip position. Because these intentions are culturally unspeakable in this context, talk is important mostly for its non-referential
effects.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/110874
Date January 1996
CreatorsDuvall, Tracy
PublisherUniversity of Arizona, Department of Anthropology
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle

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