conference paper / 1983
The Zande Pumbo: Social Change and Structural Change
This early study of the Zande Pumbo establishes one of Sellers-Young's most durable scholarly habits: reading dance as an event in which social structure becomes visible. The Pumbo is treated not as an isolated set of steps, but as a funeral ecology made from kinship labor, food preparation, music, gendered participation, authority, mourning, and spatial organization. By comparing accounts from the 1920s, mid-century reports,...
Congress on Research in Dance Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, November