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To dance is human : a theory of nonverbal communication / Judith Lynne Hanna ; with a new preface.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987Description: xxii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226315495
  • 9780226315492
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.309
LOC classification:
  • GV1603. H36 1987
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Dance? -- 3. Psyche and Soma: Some Bases of the Human Phenomenon of Dance -- 4. Dance Movement and the Communication of Sociocultural Patterns -- 5. Dance in Religion: Practicality and Transcendentalism -- 6. Dance Rites in Political Thought and Action -- Case A. Dance of Anahuac: For God or Man in Prehistory? -- Case B. Ubakala Dance-Plays: Mediators of Paradox -- 7. Warrior Dances: Transformations through Time -- 8. The Urban Ecosystem of Dance -- 9. Directions for the Future -- Appendices -- 1. Dance Movement Data Categories -- 2. Ubakala Dance-Play Profiles -- 3. Dance Representations Classificatory Framework.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 793.309 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A251512B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 793.309 HAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A251503B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-312) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Dance? -- 3. Psyche and Soma: Some Bases of the Human Phenomenon of Dance -- 4. Dance Movement and the Communication of Sociocultural Patterns -- 5. Dance in Religion: Practicality and Transcendentalism -- 6. Dance Rites in Political Thought and Action -- Case A. Dance of Anahuac: For God or Man in Prehistory? -- Case B. Ubakala Dance-Plays: Mediators of Paradox -- 7. Warrior Dances: Transformations through Time -- 8. The Urban Ecosystem of Dance -- 9. Directions for the Future -- Appendices -- 1. Dance Movement Data Categories -- 2. Ubakala Dance-Play Profiles -- 3. Dance Representations Classificatory Framework.

Reprint. Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c1979.

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