Dancing In The Streets : A History Of Collective Joy

Name: Dancing In The Streets
Brand: Granta Books
SKU: 9781847080080
Price: 2000 KES
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ISBN: 9781847080080

by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1847080081

ISBN-13 9781847080080

Publisher Granta Books

Imprint Granta Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 5th, 2008

Print length 336 Pages

Weight 238 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 13.00 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Social & cultural history Cultural studies Cultural studies Sociology Sociology: customs & traditions Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Social and cultural history

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'Dancing in the Streets is a genuine triumph of popular critical scholarship - the punchy elegance of [Ehrenreich's] prose makes this an essential purchase' Independent

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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