Katherine Dunham, antropologa della danza

By uniting theoretical approach and performance ability, Katherine Dunham made methodological choises, which, decades later, became standard practices in the field of dance anthropology. The depth of her analysis was the result of her desire to go beyond ethnographic observation and undertake genuine corporeal training. Katherine Dunham is now considered an ante-litteram exponent of public or applied anthropology due to the fact that, by using various strategies, she managed to take anthropological knowledge out of the academic world and use it as an instrument of social transformation.