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1.Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab WorldSerpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World
from Interlink Publishing Group
Price: $23.10

Customer Review:
Lots of colour pictures ... past & present ...including old paintings, quotes & accounts of the people who actually watched belly dancing...& then tried to describe it!

For those just starting out to find out about Bellydancing & such enthusiasts,there are some pictures of famous... more info

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2.Beauty and the East: A Book of Oriental Body CareBeauty and the East: A Book of Oriental Body Care
from Interlink Publishing Group
Price: $14.54

Customer Review:
One, I am ready for a Turkish bath. Two, this is a wonderful book to have for when you have a day to yourself and you want to do a home pampering. I recommend this highly just for the stories the author has to say on Middle Eastern body and spiritual care.

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3.Something in the Way She Moves: Dancing Women from Salome to MadonnaSomething in the Way She Moves: Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna
from Da Capo Press
Price: $19.76

Customer Review:
Wendy Buonaventura's book is a book about the way women have gained freedom from the constraint's of society through dance. How the "battle of the sexes" have played out on the dance floor, and how society views women during different historical periods. This book is a "must read" for any serious... more info

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4.[no image]Something in the Way She Moves: Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna
from Cambridge DaCapo 2003.

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5.[no image]Belly Dancing
from Trafalgar Square

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This book is the epitome of Orientalism and bad scholarship. Buonaventura presents opinion and interpretation as fact and twists around translations of words in order to fit her hypotheses--all without listing sources. Starry-eyed newcomers to the dance would do well to do some of their own research... more info

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6.[no image]Some Thing in the Way She moves; Dancing Women from Salome to Madonna
from Da Capo Press

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7.[no image]Serpent of the Nile
from Saqi Books

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8.[no image]Beauty & the East: A Book of Oriental Body Care
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