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Sitting at the feet of gurus : the life and ethnography of Claire Holt

Born in Latvia and educated In Moscow, Holt emigrated to New York in 1920. She studied modern dance and sculpture, and worked as a journalist and dance critic. In 1930 she traveled to the Netherlands East Indies, and, captivated by the arts and the dance, decided to stay. She studied dance in Yogyakarta with Prince Ario Tedjokusumo, and worked with the Dutch archaeologist, Willem F. Stutterheim, studying and documenting Javanese and Balinese temple art. She formed part of a circle of Western scholars and artists living in Java and Bali during the thirties, including the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and the painter Walter Spies.

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  • "Born in Latvia and educated In Moscow, Holt emigrated to New York in 1920. She studied modern dance and sculpture, and worked as a journalist and dance critic. In 1930 she traveled to the Netherlands East Indies, and, captivated by the arts and the dance, decided to stay. She studied dance in Yogyakarta with Prince Ario Tedjokusumo, and worked with the Dutch archaeologist, Willem F. Stutterheim, studying and documenting Javanese and Balinese temple art. She formed part of a circle of Western scholars and artists living in Java and Bali during the thirties, including the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and the painter Walter Spies."@en
  • "Holt's ethnographic vision was a distinct one, and can be seen as a bridge between prewar and postwar western ethnography on Indonesia. This biography places Holt within the ethnographic discourse of her time, and in relation to current Indonesian scholarship. In tracing her intellectual journey throughout her career, it also explores the ethnographic process."@en
  • "She returned to the United States in 1939, and in 1942 got a job with the State Department in Washington DC, where she helped implement technical aid programs and taught at the Foreign Service Institute. She resigned in 1953 in protest of encroaching McCarthyism. From 1955--57 she resumed her research of art and performance in Indonesia under the joint auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation and Cornell University. Upon her return, and until her death, she taught at Cornell, where she helped influence the next generation of Indonesia scholars."@en
  • "This dissertation is an intellectual biography of the Indonesia specialist and dance ethnographer Claire Holt (1901--1970), author of numerous articles and several books on Indonesian art, dance, and culture, including Art in Indonesia: Continuities and Change (Cornell University Press, 1967). Holt is of particular interest because of her multi-disciplinary approach. She acquired expertise in a variety of areas, and her varied professional career spanned over forty years. The dissertation examines the evolution of her ethnographic analysis, particularly her work in dance. It pays special attention to how Holt's practical studies of Javanese dance informed her writing, government work, and teaching."@en

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