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Grandmother's Secrets: The Ancient Rituals and Healing Power of Belly Dancing |
Author: Rosina-Fawzia B. Al-Rawi
Published: 2000-11 |
List price: $15.00
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Customer comments on this selection.
 I consider this a good book for my collection
This book has a good story that makes you want to hear more, introduces bellydance moves, and introduces the idea of healing with dance. The author grew up in Baghdad and shares her childhood memories.
 Great read for all belly dancers
It's a good book to read if you are or want to become a belly dancer.
Explained perfectly from a arabic woman
This as an excellent book. Rosina talks about growing up as a child...what the dance means for women and all the different rituals and meanings of movements of dance. This book is for someone who wants extensive knowledge about the background of bellydance and its meaning. I appreciate that it is written by an arabic woman because no matter how good a belly dancer is from america or wherever else...the middle eastern woman is born with it in her blood..it has been their escape and freedom and personalization as a woman for centuries. I couldn't put it down....give it a chance!!!
 Tired "secrets" of women's spirituality in Middle Eastern garb
Al-Rawi's account of her own introduction into a middle-eastern inflected version of women's spirituality is charmingly told, if occasionally a bit too good to be true. Perhaps the rose-colored glasses of recollection are to blame rather than any conscious attempt to manipulate the narrative...and the reader. However, when the focus shifts from personal reflections to general discussion of the titular "secrets," we are handed yet another variant of the women's spirituality mythology that appears in Eisler, Sjoo, Walker, Stone, Gimbutas, and even in the works of late 19th/early 20th century patriarchs like Engels, Bachofen, Jung, and Neumann. Of course, there are always good political reasons to perpetuate this story. The political goals have shifted several times over the past hundred years or so, and the interpretations offered alongside the mythology have been adjusted accordingly. In a way, it's refreshing to see this old torch taken up by a new, multicultural generation, and Al-Rawi gamely and competently spins a veil of Eastern mysticism around this tired narrative. Grandmother's Secrets is a fun read if you haven't already been overexposed to the alleged secrets. If this is a story you've already heard from other writers, the cosmetic changes made to it here will not hold your interest.
Grandmother's Secrets
This is a wonderful book beginning with personal experiences by the author who is from a Middle Eastern culture that is followed by historical information and then a more practical guide for belly dancing. It gives insight into what belly dancing is really meant to mean and how it glorifies the woman's body without shame. I don't think many people (maybe Americans) realize this because it came to our country after the wars and was done strictly for entertainment of men who looked upon women as objects for their enjoyment. On a less serious note, it is indeed an enlightening book and I thoroughly enjoyed it...you will too---man or woman!
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