Power in Motion
Power in Motion
A Conclusion
The concluding chapter reasserts the critical importance of claiming and expressing power to the history of powwow--through sensory experiences of space and time, through transcultural exchanges, and through performances of race. Axtmann analyzes three dance styles that best exemplify these complex power dynamics: the women’s jingle dress dance and the women’s and men’s fancy dances. She explores dance competitions as modern-day warfare, where agency is asserted through dynamic dance practices, ancient and modern, traditional and ever-changing. Concentrating on principal dance styles performed at powwows in the Northeast, Axtmann also considers other regional dances, discussing how moving bodies affirm and re-affirm individual and cultural specificity. She closes with remarks about the dangers of commercialization to powwow.
Keywords: agency, comparing the dances, commercialization, competitions, jingle dress style, men’s fancy style, power, sacred, transculturation, women’s fancy shawl style
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