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Dancing in the Streets

Paperback • 2008 • English

Dancing in the Streets

By Barbara Ehrenreich

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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9781847080080

Publisher

Granta Books

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Dancing in the Streets

Format

Paperback

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