Ethnologies invites submissions for a special issue focusing on dance in Canada. The editors particularly encourage papers that explore concepts of tradition, reinvention, revival, heritage and identity as enacted in and by diverse dancers and dance communities. Analyses may address dance of any contemporary or historical genre and/or performance context, and should draw upon expansive notions of ethnological inquiry.

Suggested topics include:

o Concepts and practices of "the traditional" in relation to changing circumstances of regional, national, transnational and diaspora identities
o Dance reconstructions and revivals
o Traditional dance in contemporary contexts
o Constructions of histories of dance
o Creation/promotion of identity through dance and performance
o Dance as symbolic practice and/or narrative construction
o The interplay of culture and agency in performance
o Relationships between dance and music

Other relevant topics are welcome.

Ethnologies is a biannual journal published by the Folklore Studies Association of Canada. Please consult the journal's style sheet or a current issue of the journal for footnoting style and format. Submissions for this issue should be approximately 20 typed double-spaced pages or the equivalent and should be sent in triplicate with a removable title page for anonymous evaluation by two reviewers. The manuscript should be accompanied by a brief abstract and short biographical note. The deadline for submission of manuscripts (in either French or English) is 1 May 2006. For further information please contact the guest editors below or simply send manuscripts to:

Kristin Harris: kmharris@swgc.mun.ca

Sherry Johnson: sherryj@yorku.ca

Marcia Ostashewski: marciao@nipissingu.ca

Assistant Professor,
Anthropology and Sociology
Nipissing University
100 College Drive
North Bay, ON
P1B 8L7

Ph. (705) 474-3461 ext. 4713
Fax (705) 474-1947