Title: The Function of dance in human society;
Authors: Boas, Franziska.; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Publisher: Dance horizons
Year: 1972
Subjects: Dance; Primitive societies.
Abstract: Republication of the 1944 ed. published by the Boas School, New York, with a new introd.
Contents: Introductory note / Franziska Boas -- Dance and music in the life of the Northwest coast Indians of North America (Kwakiutl) / Franz Boas -- Function of dance forms in primitive African communities / Geoffrey Gorer -- Dance and dance-drama in Haiti / Harold Courlander -- Form and function of the dance in Bali / Claire Holt.