Africa Dances (Travel Library)

Gorer, Geoffrey

Literature & Fiction

Penguin

In the early 1930s, Geoffrey Gorer, who had already made his mark with Africa Dances (now reissued in the Penguin Travel Library) went on a three months' trip to Sumatra, Java, Bali, Thailand, and Cambodia. The resulting travelogue, an exciting record, can be read today with great enjoyment and interest. Though recent travel writing about South-East Asia may contain more practical information, what Bali and Angkor lacks in this respect is more than made up for by Gorer's considerable powers of observation and his interest in interpreting the role that art and religion play in the life of the Balinese and the Khmers.

Bali and Angkor (Oxford in Asia Paperbacks)

Oxford University Press

The American People: A Study in National Character

W.W.Norton&Company

1935. In 1934, Geoffrey Gorer wrote confidently that The West African Negro... is (more than anything else) the man who expresses every emotion with rhythmical bodily movement. Ten years after its publication, Gorer admitted that rereading his anthropological survey of West Africa, Africa Dances, was a chastening and, in some ways, humiliating experience. But, although his methodology is now outdated, cultural and racial generalizations such as this paved the way for modern-day anthropology.

Africa Dances: A Book About West African Negroes

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Kessinger Pub Co

Originally published in 1935, Africa Dances takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris (Feral Benga). It's a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society while Christian missionaries undermine indigenous morality. The book captures the rich physical and psychological detail of village life-from food and architecture to witch doctors, dance, and magic.

Africa Dances

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Eland & Sickle Moon Books

In Africa Dances, Gorer takes the reader on an odyssey across West Africa, in the company of one of the great black ballet stars of 1930s Paris. It is a devastating critique of colonial rule, which is shown to be destroying African society just as effectively as Christian missionaries undermine indigenous morality.

Africa Dances: through writers' eyes (Eland Classics)

Reference

Eland Publishing

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