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Dancing in the Streets - A History of Collective Joy (Paperback)
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Dancing in the Streets - A History of Collective Joy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R459
Discovery Miles 4 590
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"Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of
outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead."--Terry
Eagleton, "The Nation""" Widely praised as "impressive" (The
Washington Post Book World), "ambitious" (The Wall Street Journal),
and "alluring" (The Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the Streets
explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed
that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy,
historically expressed in revels of feasting, costuming, and
dancing.
Drawing on a wealth of history and anthropology, Barbara Ehrenreich
uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and
culture. From the earliest orgiastic Mesopotamian rites to the
medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion" and the
transgressive freedoms of carnival, she demonstrates that mass
festivities have long been central to the Western tradition. In
recent centuries, this festive tradition has been repressed,
cruelly and often bloodily. But as Ehrenreich argues in this
original, exhilarating, and ultimately optimistic book, the
celebratory impulse is too deeply ingrained in human nature ever to
be completely extinguished.
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