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Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy (Paperback) Loot Price: R247
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Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy (Paperback)

Barbara Ehrenreich

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In Dancing in the Streets Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. Although sixteenth-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage', Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greek's worship of Dionysus to the medieval practices of Christianity as a 'danced religion'. Exhilarating in its scholarly range, humane, witty and impassioned, Dancing in the Streets will generate debate and soul-searching.

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Imprint: Granta Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2008
Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-84708-008-0
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Customs
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-84708-008-1
Barcode: 9781847080080

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