In West Java; Indonesia; all it takes is a womanrsquo;s voice and a drum beat to make a man get up and dance. Every day; men theremdash;be they students; pedicab drivers; civil servants; or businessmenmdash;breach ordinary standards of decorum and succumb to the rhythm at village ceremonies; weddings; political rallies; and nightclubs. The music the men dance to varies from traditional gong ensembles to the contemporary pop known as dangdut; but they consistently dance with great enthusiasm. In Erotic Triangles; Henry Spiller draws on decades of ethnographic research to explore the reasons behind this phenomenon; arguing that Sundanese men use dance to explore and enact contradictions in their gender identities.Framing the three crucial elements of Sundanese dancemdash;the female entertainer; the drumming; and menrsquo;s sense of freedommdash;as a triangle; Spiller connects them to a range of other theoretical perspectives; drawing on thinkers from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Leacute;vi-Strauss; and Freud to Euclid. By granting men permission to literally perform their masculinity; Spiller ultimately concludes; dance provides a crucial space for both reinforcing and resisting orthodox gender ideologies.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One mans journeys into architectureBy johnboyThis book is one mans collection of architectural photographs taken over what must have been many years of travels. The photographs document different ways of building - with bricks. wood. etc - from many different cultures. While the book is not comprehensive. it is one mans idiosyncratic vision of buildings in the places he has been. It is soulful and lacks artifice. I would recommend it to anyone generally interested in architecture.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. AVOID the Kindle Edition!By S. domesticusThe one star is specifically for the Kindle edition. This is probably a good book. but the Kindle edition does it no justice whatsoever; double-page spreads are chopped in two. captions refer to photos that you must click forward or back to see. Its maddening. and ruins the appearance that the authors surely intended. In future. I will avoid Kindle editions of photo books.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. illuminating book!By Ted SmithHonestly. if you are about doing things yourself you need to embrace what you learn in this book. I think in the future we will need to find new ways to live.
