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The Dancing Goddesses - Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance (Paperback)
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The Dancing Goddesses - Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed
in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights
and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing were these
spirit-maidens that they also took up residence in
nineteenth-century Romantic literature. Archaeologist and linguist
by profession, folk dancer by avocation, Elizabeth Wayland Barber
has sleuthed through ethnographic lore and archaeological reports
of east and southeast Europe, translating enchanting folktales
about these dancing goddesses as well as eyewitness accounts of
traditional rituals texts that offer new perspectives on dance in
agrarian society. She then traces these goddesses and their dances
back through the Romans and Greeks to the first farmers of Europe.
Along the way, she locates the origins of many customs, including
coloring Easter eggs and throwing rice at the bride. The result is
a detective story like no other and a joyful reminder of the human
need to dance."
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