Dancing at the Crossroads

Helena Wulff is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. Her research focusses on expressive cultural forms in a transnational perspective. Studies on the transnational world of dance and social memory have generated questions in relation to place, mobility and emotions, as well as to visual culture and writing. Among her publications are The Emotions: A Cultural Reader (editor, 2007, Berg), Ballet Across Borders: Career and Culture in the World of Dancers (Berg, 1998, reprinted 2001), and Youth Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (edited with Vered Amit-Talai, 1995, Routledge).

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Into the Rhythm of the Dance Chapter 2. Tradition Reinvented Chapter 3. Memories in Motion Chapter 4. The Link to the Land Chapter 5. Storytelling Dance Chapter 6. Winning the World's Chapter 7. The Riverdance Moment Chapter 8. Rooted Cosmopolitanism Afterword: Yo-yo Fieldwork Bibliography Index

Wulff does convincing and interesting work in making the argument that all Irish dance is influenced by links to the land and/or notions of Irishness, tradition, authenticity, and collective identity...[that] becomes increasingly complicated given issues of immigration, colonization, diasporic communities, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism.A" * H-Net Reviews