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.