Joann Kealiinohomoku

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Joann Kealiinohomoku
Born Joann Wheeler
May 20, 1930
Kansas City, Missouri
Occupation Anthropologist
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Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku (also Keali'inohomoku) (b. 1930) is an American anthropologist and educator, co-founder of the dance research organization Cross-Cultural Dance Resources. She has written numerous books and articles, including contributions on dance-related subjects to multiple encyclopedias, such as writing the "Hula" articles for the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Americana. Some of her best known works are "An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance" (1970) and "Theory and methods for an anthropological study of dance" (1976). A professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, she was named professor emerita in 1987. In 1997, she won the first annual award for "Outstanding Contribution to Dance Research" from the academic Congress on Research in Dance.[1] In 2000, her collection of work was named by President Clinton's White House Millennium Council, as something that needed to be preserved under the "Save America's Treasures" program.[2]

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[edit] Biography

She was born Joann Wheeler on May 20, 1930 in Kansas City, Missouri, to George V. and Leona Lavena (Moore) Wheeler.[3] Wheeler attended grammar school in Des Plaines, Illinois[4] later studying at Northwestern University, receiving a BSS degree in 1955, an MA in 1965, and a PhD from Indiana University in 1976, with her dissertation being "Theory and methods for an anthropological study of dance." In 1952, she married Thomas Samuel Kealiinohomoku. They had one child, Halla, and divorced in 1962. She was the dance reviewer for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin from 1960-1963. In 1970, she published one of her best known works, "An anthropologist looks at ballet as a form of ethnic dance".[5]

Kealiinohomoku was on the Board of Directors for the Native Americans for Community Action, 1977-1982, and the Flagstaff Indian Center from 1980-1982. She is a member of the Society of Ethnomusicology, where she was co-founder of their Southwestern Chapter. She was also on the Board of Directors from 1974-1979 of the Congress on Research in Dance, and in 1981 was co-founder of Cross-Cultural Dance Resources, a dance research organization in Flagstaff, Arizona. She was on the board of directors of CCDR until 1993, and then again from 1999.[6] In 2008, it was announced that the CCDR collection was to be transferred to the Herberger College of the Arts in Tempe, Arizona for permanent curation.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Selected works

  • 1967, "Hopi and Polynesian dance: a study in cross-cultural comparison,"Ethnomusicology, 11:343-368

[edit] Encyclopedia articles

  • 1970, "Hula" The Encyclopedia Americana 14:542, Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, Inc. reprinted in subsequent editions., 2002
  • 1994 , "Dance," Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, Mary B. Davis, ed. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, vol. 452:164-169. NY & London: Garland
  • 1995, "Dance in traditional religions," HarperCollins, Encyclopedia of Religion, Jonathan Z. Smith, general ed., Sam D. Gill, area ed.: 304-307. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco
  • 1996, "Gestures," American Folklore: an encyclopedia, Jan Harold Brunvand, general editor: Garland Reference Library, of the Humanities vol. 1551:333-335. NY & London: Garland.
  • 1998, "Gertrude Prokosch Kurath" " Hopi dance", "Primitive dance." Selma Jeanne Cohen (founding editor), International encyclopedia of dance, New York: Oxford, University Press.
  • 1998, "Folk dance," Academic American Encyclopedia, 8:199-201. Barbara Winard, editor. Danbury CT: Grolier. 2002
  • 2001, “Music and dance in the United States,” pp.206-222, volume 3, The United States and Canada, Ellen Koskoff, editor. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, NY & London: Garland Publishing Co.
  • 2002, "Hula," Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Danbury, Connecticut

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ CORD Awards. Congress on Research in Dance. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  2. ^ Irreplaceable Treasures. Information Bulletin. Library of Congress (August/September 2000). Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  3. ^ "Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku", Marquis Who's Who, 2007
  4. ^ Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. (September 2005). "More thoughts on race". Dance Magazine 79 (9): 16. 
  5. ^ Popper, Regina. "A forecast of dance's future", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1989-07-02. "Joann Kealiinohomoku, a cultural anthropologist who directs Cross-Cultural Dance Resources in Flagstaff, Ariz., and who in 1970 wrote an essay titled An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance." 
  6. ^ Joann Kealiinohomoku biography. Cross-Cultural Dance Resources. Retrieved on 2008-06-08.
  7. ^ Johnson, Robert. "Dance notes", Star-Ledger, 2000-08-09. 
  8. ^ Collins, Karyn D.. "Dancing into greatness", Asbury Park Press, 2000-08-20. "Preservation awards went to the Katherine Dunham Center in East St. Louis, Il., Cross-Cultural Dance Resources in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the Halla Huhm Foundation in Honolulu." 
  9. ^ President Clinton announces FY2000 Save America's Treasures grants. National Archives. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.