Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index.
1. Dance, history, and ethnography : frameworks, sources, and identities of past and present / 2. Dances and dancing in Tonga : anthropological and historical discourses / 3. Constructing a classical tradition : Javanese court dance in Indonesia / 4. Utopia, Eutopia, and E.U.-topia : performance and memory in former Yugoslavia / 5. Qualities of memory : two dances of the Tortugas Fiesta, New Mexico / 6. Dancing through history and ethnography : Indian classical dance and the performance of the past / 7. Interpreting the historical record : using images of Korean dance for understanding the past / 8. Romani dance event in Skopje, Macedonia : research strategies, cultural identities, and technologies / 9. Being traditional : authentic selves and others in researching late-twentieth-century northwest English Morris dancing / Theresa Jill Buckland -- Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Lynn D. Maners -- Deidre Sklar -- Janet O'Shea -- Judy Van Zile -- Elsie Ivancich Dunin -- Theresa Jill Buckland.