Imre Lazar 
Dance of the Avatar 
Embodying Gender and Culture through Dance

"Dance of the Avatar" is a comprehensive work and includes cultural studies and anthropology of revival movements from a historical perspective; it is focused on the Dance House phenomenon, which includes gender and ethnic aspects from a cultural and medical anthropological context. This book deals with the theory of tradition and cultural transfer of heritage through pedagogy and counterculture movements, with an emphasis on the the Wundtian contribution and its Hungarian counterparts. The Dance House phenomenon is presented through an auto-anthropological perspective, including the author’s field work results. This book is recommended to those interested in the cultural studies of dance, subcultures and heritage, sociology of culture, ethnochoreology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, gender studies, religious studies and human ecology.