| Tribal Dancing Contributor(s): Hambly, W. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906830010 ISBN-13: 9781906830014 Publisher: David Leonard OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Dance - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.13 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "... a slave or an old man was seized and carried off to the bush ... what there befell him nobody could tell, but it is certain that a few days later the masked band returned to the village with a finger, a toe, a bit of skin, or some other part of the captive fastened to a pole ..." The American born, Oxford educated anthropologist, Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (born 1886) lived and worked at a time when missionaries and other "civilising" influences had not completely destroyed the ways of life of primitive peoples, and his Tribal Dancing and Social Development, first published in 1927, remains a major resource in its field. Hambly surveyed dancing and music as a communal activity and expression of emotion from the cradle to the grave, beginning with the celebration of a birth and ending with the dance which follows death - often long after death, like the dance in the Nicobarese ceremony of disinterring the dead and collecting their bones. Hambly casts his net wide: ranging from ancient Egypt and the Inca civilisations of South America to North American Indians, Zulu Warriors, and the extinct Aborigines of Tasmania. The result is not only a major scholarly document, but an enthralling reading experience. |