Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures / Drid Williams ; foreword by Brenda Farnell.

Author/creator Williams, Drid
Other author Williams, Drid, 1928-2018
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxx, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introductory -- Why do people dance? -- Emotional, psychologistic, and biological explanations -- Intellectualistic and literary explanations -- Religious and quasi-religious explanations -- Functional explanations -- Bibliographic controls -- Body language(s) -- Modern theories of human action -- Human behavior.
General noteRev. ed. of: Ten lectures on theories of the dance, c1991.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and indexes.
LCCN 2002155965
ISBN0252028554 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252071344 (pbk. : alk. paper)