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I want to share the two things I love most: dance and anthropology. As a scholar and a dancer, I have an unquenchable desire to understand the historical, cultural, and personal experiences of dancing. When I witness a performance of dance, rather than simply review it, I will use it as a springboard for scholarly inquiry. In addition, because I am an anthropologist, I will post fieldnotes, headnotes, and bodynotes on my experiences as a belly dancer in Santa Cruz County in Northern California. I sincerely hope you will contribute your own knowledge and experience with me.

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“Speaking only from personal experience, during lunch hours in the gym, we girls danced with each other in the middle of the basketball court, while the boys careened and vied around us. Girls were taught to dance by other girls, boys learned to dance from us….Is it possible to dance our way back into community, culture, and civilization, while the boys careen and view around us? Only time will tell, but dance we must—circling—doing a figure 8 through a maze of contradictions, dodging confrontation, tugging the hands of faltering sisters, the group rhythm transporting us round. Just that is our most practical, political strategy—for our greatest, tested strength is our collective spirit.”

— Grace Shinell "Women's Collective Spirit: Exemplified and Envisioned" in The Politics of Women's Spirituality. Charlene Spretnak, ed. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press: 1982

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