The Dancing Goddesses
Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they also took up residence in nineteenth-century Romantic literature.Archaeologist and linguist by profession, folk dancer by avocation, Elizabeth Wayland Barber has sleuthed through ethnographic lore and archaeological reports of east and southeast Europe, translating enchanting folktales about these dancing goddesses as well as eyewitness accounts of traditional rituals-texts that offer new perspectives on dance in agrarian…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-393-06536-7
- EAN: 9780393065367
- Produktnummer: 12647953
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B18.6 cm x D3.5 cm 890 g
- Abbildungen: 150 illustrations and 9 maps
- Gewicht: 890
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Women's Work, The Dancing Goddesses, and The Mummies of Ürümchi. Professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, she lives in California.
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