Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures /

Williams, Drid, 1928-2018

Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures / Drid Williams ; foreword by Brenda Farnell. - Second edition. - xx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Revised edition of: Ten lectures on theories of the dance, c1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.

Introductory -- Why do people dance? -- Emotional, psychologistic, and biological explanations -- Intellectualistic and literary explanations -- Religious and quasi-religious explanations -- Functional explanations -- Bibliographic controls -- Body language(s) -- Modern theories of human action -- Human behavior -- An exercise in applied personal anthropology. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. App.

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Dance--Anthropological aspects
Dance

GV1588.6 / .W55 2004

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