The Transformation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance through State Education and Politics in the Ritual of a Rural Greek Community

Fountzoulas, Giorgos K.; Koutsouba, Maria; Hapsoulas, Anastasios; Lantzos, Vasilios

doi:10.5901/mjss.2017.v8n1p243

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“…Therefore, the custom of "K"na" and even more its dance had to change so as not to coincide with that of the Turks, reminding everyone of their common course. A major role towards this was played by the junta of colonels that took over Greece from 1967 to 1974, during which a homogeneous "pan-Thracian" musical-dance repertoire was created (Filippidou, 2011), in order to boost the national identity of Greek Thrace and to restrict its diverse ethnocultural particularities, a phenomenon that took place all over Greece (Fountzoulas, Koutsouba, Hapsoulas, & Lantzos, 2017). As a result, all ethnic-cultural groups of the area, as well as Nea Vyssa, followed the standards of the "K"na" dance that was imposed by the political power of that period (see Figure 6).…”

Section: The Construction Of National Identity As a Results Of The Cybmentioning

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The Construction of National Identity through Cybernetic Process: The Example of “K’na” Dance Event in Greek and Turkish Thrace

Filippidou

Koutsouba

Lalioti

et al. 2019

European Review of Applied Sociology

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The research field of this paper is the area of Thrace, a large geopolitical-cultural unit that was divided – due to political reasons – in three subareas distributed among three different countries: Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. A dance event that used to take place before the border demarcation but is still performed in the Greek and Turkish Thrace is that of “K’na”, a wedding dance event danced by the people of both border areas, despite of the changes in their magical-religious beliefs and the changes brought by socio-economic and cultural development. In particular, the aim of this paper is the study of the “construction” of the national identity of inhabitants both of Greek and Turkish Thrace, as this is manifested through the dance practice within the wedding event of “K’na”, through the lens of sociocybernetics. Data was gathered through ethnographic method as this is applied to the study of dance, while its interpretation was based on sociocybernetics according to Burke’s identity control theory. From the data analysis, it is showed that the “K’na” dance in Greek and Turkish Thrace constructs and reconstructs the national identity of the people who use them as a response to the messages they receive via the communication with “the national others”. In conclusion, the “construction” of the identity results from a continuous procedure of self-regulation and self-control through a cybernetic sequence of steps.

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Section: The Construction Of National Identity As a Results Of The Cybmentioning

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The Construction of National Identity through Cybernetic Process: The Example of “K’na” Dance Event in Greek and Turkish Thrace

Filippidou

Koutsouba

Lalioti

et al. 2019

European Review of Applied Sociology

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Dance and Socio-Cybernetics: The Dance event of “K’na” As A Shaping Component of The Cultural Identity Amongst the Arvanites of Neo Cheimonio Evros, Greece

Filippidou

Koutsouba

2020

J Ethn Cult Stud

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The research field of this paper is the wedding dance event of “K’na”, as this takes place by the Arvanites of Greek Thrace, an ethnic group moved to the area from Turkish Thrace in 1923. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the three components of dance, music and song of Greek traditional dance, as these reflected in the “K’na” dance event amongst the Arvanites ethnic group of Neo Cheimonio (Evros), are related to issues of ethno-cultural identity under the lens of socio-cybernetics. Data was gathered through ethnographic method as this is applied to the study of dance, while its interpretation was based on socio-cybernetics according to Burke’s identity control theory. From the data analysis, it is showed that through the “K’na” dance event the Thracian Arvanites of Neo Cheimonio shape and reshape their ethno-cultural identity as a reaction to the input they receive from their environment. Therefore, the “construction” of their identity, as a constant process of self-regulation and internal control, is subjected to the conditions of a cybernetic process.

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The Transformation of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance through State Education and Politics in the Ritual of a Rural Greek Community

Abstract: In many cases, dance, as an embodied practice reflects habits, views, relations and juxtaposition and thus constitutes a "vessel" of meanings

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The Construction of National Identity through Cybernetic Process: The Example of “K’na” Dance Event in Greek and Turkish Thrace

The Construction of National Identity through Cybernetic Process: The Example of “K’na” Dance Event in Greek and Turkish Thrace

Dance and Socio-Cybernetics: The Dance event of “K’na” As A Shaping Component of The Cultural Identity Amongst the Arvanites of Neo Cheimonio Evros, Greece

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