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English
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Dance Brings About Everything : Dance Power in the Ideologies of Northern Utes of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation and Predominantly Mormon Anglos of an Adjacent Uintah Basin Community. (Volumes I and II)
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Berkeley, California
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University of California
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Ph.D.
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"This dissertation is a cross-cultural examination of the dance ideologies of Northern Utes of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in northeast Utah, and Mormon and non-Mormon Anglo residents of an adjacent Uintah Basin community. Interviews are subjected to both qualitative and quantitative analysis, using a variety of multivariate techniques such as space modeling and multidimensional scaling. The Northern Ute ideology accords more power to dance than does the Anglo ideology. Most Northern Utes are rated positive on key principles of Anglo dance philosophies. Partitioned Monotone Distance Analysis demonstrates that Anglo fine artists are more similar to Northern Utes than to other Anglo subjects. Scales of meaning in multiple dimensions of dance vary from the abstract to the concrete and from the local to the global. Dance reportedly effects a realm of survival which varies from local and intimate (survival of a part of the person) to global dimensions (survival of the entire universe). Northern Utes and Anglo fine artists attribute greatest survival value to dance on all ranges of the scale. Regarding spirituality, spirit encounters are most concrete or immanent (such as interaction with specific spirits or vital forces) for Northern Utes and Anglo fine artists. For Anglos, intensive art experience is associated with ideas of dance as a vital, transformative force. Northern Utes share such views. Spiritual statements of Anglos with low art participation exclusively reference transcendent religious attributes of dance and describe dance as non-vital. Similarity Structure Analysis and Partitioned Monotone Distance Analysis combine with a qualitative analysis of interviews to demonstrate greater ideational integration in the Northern Ute dance ideology, which often functions to augment the power accorded to dance. Textual analysis suggests that some absences of interconnecting ideational structures constitute gaps in Anglo ideologies of dance." [Author's abstract]