Judith Lynne Hanna, Ph.D. Resources for Scholars and Students:
“The Judith Lynne Hanna DanceLegacy” is held by the Performing Arts Collection of the Michelle Smith Library for the Performing Arts, University of Maryland.The collection includes listings on ,more than 300dance articles by and about Dr. Hanna since 1965, and pamphlets,talks, correspondence, newspaper clippings since the 1840s, photos, videos, tapes, reviews, awards, proposals, monographs, books, interviews from research informants, descriptions of unique courses in the United States and Europe, and articles (some not available in libraries),that she drew upon for her research on dance that is presented in her articles and numerous books.The Collection can be accessed during regular Performing Arts Library hours. Contact: Special Collections in Performing Arts, 301-405-9220 or 301-314-7614.
“Judith Lynne Hanna Collection”(“African Dances: 1963” motionpicture film, audio tapes, 35 mm slides and related publicationsare now Archived at American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, USA). The collection includes about 4,450 feet of 16 mm motion picture film from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia that the American Folklife Center has digitalized. Because of the limitations of the Bell and Howell 70 DR camera equipment used, the music was recorded separately on quarter inch 7 1/2 half-track audiotape. A Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Historical Archives Grant helped to preserve the original material. Contact: 202-707-1739.
YouTube: jlhanna36has Nigeria’s Ubakala Igbo Dance-plays and Kenyan Independence 1963 dances from throughout the country.
"Semiotic Profiles" in Semiotix are “articles which offer accounts of personalities who have made a signal contribution to the development of semiotics and continue to be productive,” says the editor Professor Paul Bouissac. “These reports are conceived not as personal celebrations (sorts of ante-mortem obituaries!) but as resources for younger researchers in the various fields which are involved. This is why we also publish complete bibliographies of the scholars who are the objects of these profiles. We send the bulletin to approximately 6,000 international correspondents and it remains posted online indefinitely.” See the profile of Judith Lynne Hanna.
American Anthropologist, 2011, 113(4):648-650.“Public Anthropology:Judith Lynne Hanna and ‘Striptease Culture’” discusses her ethnographic and legal work in the service of truth, rights of dancers, service staff, managers, and consumers in the strip club industry, and everyone’s civil liberties. See
Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right.
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