An African Igbo Perspective on Mourning Dances and Their Application to Dance/Movement Therapy

Akunna, Gladys Ijeoma

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“…Patients who suffered traumatic experiences may experience severe alienation from the social or cultural context. In these cases, ATs may address new ways into social and cultural involvement through shared art practices [ 42 , 43 ].…”

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The Aesthetic Turn in Mental Health: Reflections on an Explorative Study into Practices in the Arts Therapies

Samaritter

2018

Behavioral Sciences

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The paper will draw on materials from arts therapies literature and comments from expert panels to discuss some specific characteristics of the arts therapies and to investigate the role of aesthetic engagement for resilience and mental well-being. The arts increasingly find their way as interventions in mental health domains. However, explorations into the specific mechanisms that underpin the therapeutic effect of arts-based activities are still scarce. Qualitative data were collected from a thematic literature review and experts’ comments on meaningful working procedures in arts therapies. Analysis of multiple data sources revealed core themes and core procedures that occur across arts therapy modalities. This paper presents a practice informed model of arts-based methods in mental health that may serve as a conceptual frame of reference for arts therapists and as study material on the applicability of arts therapy interventions for specific mental health settings.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Aesthetic Turn in Mental Health: Reflections on an Explorative Study into Practices in the Arts Therapies

Samaritter

2018

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Other scholars, apart from observing Nigerian dances as spiritual, are of the view that it is a total expression of the life of a people. Akunna (2007) reviews this as -a manifestation of the socio-political, economic, religious and aesthetic life of the people‖. For Harper (1968), -dance is an integral part of life‖.…”

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Breaking barriers and stimulating dance accompaniment to popular music in Nigeria

Adekogbe¹

2023

J. Music Dance

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Dances are part of our socio cultural identities in Nigeria. They are performed for different purposes and at different settings such as home, social gatherings, religious centres, schools, concert halls, dance halls and theatres. Some dance steps are peculiar to certain ethnic groups within each geopolitical zone in Nigeria. These peculiarities of dance steps are seemingly going into oblivion. This paper seeks to find out reasons for the erosive state of these dance steps and reasons for the consequent emergence of modified dance steps. Primary data were collected through oral interview of selected dance groups in Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Ijaw, Calabar, Istekiri and Jos metropolis. Secondary data were collected by reviewing works of scholars in published books and articles from national and international journals. The findings reveal that the emergence of modified dance steps has now become an accompaniment to popular music as against the conventional concept of music as an accompaniment to dance. These dance steps become more popular than the traditional dances and adapted as homely dances in all the selected geo-political zones in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the emergence of modified dance steps has eroded and sniffed the dance peculiarities of these towns as a result of popular music artiste's quest for identity and unity of dance steps to their music.

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“…As "Queen of the Underworld," captives may have pleaded with her to help them return to earth (ilo ta uwa), to enter the land of the ancestors, which was a homecoming event rooted in their belief in endless life through reincarnation. 96 For captives thrust into a state of nonbeing, the Great Mother embodied closeness, belonging, and community. 97 However, the drug invoice for the Fame, which included a device called a "turn screw" that cost one shilling and forced open the mouths of captives while breaking their teeth, cannot help but recall the violence of pharmaceutical captivity.…”

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Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade

Roberts

2023

Bus. Hist. Rev.

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The archival record of the transatlantic slave trade poses a methodological challenge to researchers who wish to center the lives of enslaved people in their scholarship. In more recent years, such archival scrutiny has evolved into its own vibrant field of inquiry concerning the politics of the archive. This article contributes to this burgeoning field by studying the pharmaceutical dimensions of the British slave trade and examining the underexplored relationship between captivity and drugs that articulated across the Atlantic world. By performing three different readings of a slave ship drug invoice—as a textual artifact, epistemic argument, and narrative of loss—I argue that the drug invoice stimulates new illness narratives of captive Africans in the historiography of the British slave trade.

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An African Igbo Perspective on Mourning Dances and Their Application to Dance/Movement Therapy

Cited by 10 publications

References 40 publications

The Aesthetic Turn in Mental Health: Reflections on an Explorative Study into Practices in the Arts Therapies

The Aesthetic Turn in Mental Health: Reflections on an Explorative Study into Practices in the Arts Therapies

Breaking barriers and stimulating dance accompaniment to popular music in Nigeria

Pharmaceutical Captivity, Epistemological Rupture, and the Business Archive of the British Slave Trade

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