Anthropology and the dance
Subtitle: ten lectures
By: Drid Williams ; foreword by Brenda Farnell.
Contributors: Williams, Drid, 1928-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Dance -- Anthropological aspects.; Dance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and indexes.
Rev. ed. of: Ten lectures on theories of the dance, c1991.
Table of contents: title: Introductory; title: Why do people dance?; title: Emotional, psychologistic, and biological explanations; title: Intellectualistic and literary explanations; title: Religious and quasi-religious explanations; title: Functional explanations; title: Bibliographic controls; title: Body language(s); title: Modern theories of human action; title: Human behavior.