Bøger af Jonathan S. Marion

What happens when one's skill level in dance, the martial arts, or other activities surpasses local training opportunities? Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion provide a new and exciting apprenticeship pilgrimages model --including local, regional, opportunistic, and virtual--that practitioners undertake to acquire knowledge, skills, and legitimacy originally unavailable.

Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. This book explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. It shows how dancing influences mind and body alike. It provides an ethnographic picture of how dancers and others live their lives both on and off the dance floor.