Postcolonial Agency, Proactive Archiving, and Applied Ethnochoreology : The National Dance Archive of Ireland

• Authors: Catherine E. Foley
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the construction of archives and in particular dance archives with special focus on the National Dance Archive of Ireland. The paper provides a contextual background to the establishment and workings of the archive and explores issues relating to postcoloniality. It suggests that proactive archiving and applied ethnochoreology within the context of dance archives can potentially play an important role in contributing to postcolonial agency in the construction of social and cultural identities

Keywords

EN

National Dance; Archive; Ireland; Ethnochoreology; Postcolonial Agency; Proactive Archiving

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 623-633
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Catherine E. Foley

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic