Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures /

Williams, Drid, 1928-

Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures / Drid Williams ; foreword by Brenda Farnell. - 2nd ed. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004. - xx, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Rev. ed. of: Ten lectures on theories of the dance, c1991.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and indexes.

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.

0252028554 (cloth : alk. paper) 0252071344 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Dance--Anthropological aspects.
Dance.

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