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To dance is human : a theory of nonverbal communication / Judith Lynne Hanna ; with a new preface.

By: Hanna, Judith Lynne.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987Description: xxii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0226315495 (pbk.); 9780226315492.Subject(s): Dance -- Anthropological aspects | Dance -- History | Dance -- Philosophy | Dance | Dance -- Social aspects | Communication studies | Dance -- Sociological aspects | Anthropology | Nonverbal communicationDDC classification: 792.8 HAN
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Exploring dance from the rural villages of Africa to the stages of Lincoln Center, Judith Lynne Hanna shows that it is as human to dance as it is to learn, to build, or to fight. Dance is human thought and feeling expressed through the body: it is at once organized physical movement, language, and a system of rules appropriate in different social situations. Hanna offers a theory of dance, drawing on work in anthropology, semiotics, sociology, communications, folklore, political science, religion, and psychology as well as the visual and performing arts. A new preface provides commentary on recent developments in dance research and an updated bibliography.

Includes index.

Reprint. Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, c1979. With a new preface.

Bibliography: p. [271]-312.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Dance?
  • 3 Psyche and Soma: Some Bases of the Human Phenomenon of Dance
  • 4 Dance Movement and the Communication of Sociocultural Patterns
  • 5 Dance in Religion: Practicality and Transcendentalism
  • 6 Dance Rites in Political Thought and Action Case A. Dance of Anaacute;huac: For God or Man in Prehistory? Case B. Ubakala Dance-Plays: Mediators of Paradox
  • 7 Warrior Dances: Transformations through Time
  • 8 The Urban Ecosystem of Dance
  • 9 Directions for the Future Appendices
  • 1 Dance Movement Data Categories
  • 2 Ubakala Dance-Play Profiles
  • 3 Dance Representations Classificatory Framework
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index