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Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich
$6.06
Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy - Thryft
Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy - Thryft

Discover the History of Collective Joy!

This book is perfect for those interested in understanding the historical importance of collective celebrations such as feasts, costuming, and dancing in human society. The author beautifully connects various cultures and time periods to explain how these collective celebrations reflect the social nature of humans. It is a unique and insightful read that will leave readers feeling more connected to human history and identity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Dancing In The Streets - A History Of Collective Joy

by Barbara Ehrenreich
$6.06
ISBN: 9780805057232
Authors: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date of Publication: 2007-01-09
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Music, History, Sociology, Religion
Related Topics: History, Anthropology, Microhistory, History, History
Goodreads rating: 3.83
(rated by 1348 readers)

Description

From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian, a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest the celebration of communal joyIn the acclaimed Blood Rites , Barbara Ehrenreich delved into the origins of our species' attraction to war. Here, she explores the opposite impulse, one that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing.Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. Although sixteenth-century Europeans viewed mass festivities as foreign and "savage," Ehrenreich shows that they were indigenous to the West, from the ancient Greeks' worship of Dionysus to the medieval practice of Christianity as a "danced religion." Ultimately, church officials drove the festivities into the streets, the prelude to widespread Protestants criminalized carnival, Wahhabist Muslims battled ecstatic Sufism, European colonizers wiped out native dance rites. The elites' fear that such gatherings would undermine social hierarchies was the festive tradition inspired French revolutionary crowds and uprisings from the Caribbean to the American plains. Yet outbreaks of group revelry persist, as Ehrenreich shows, pointing to the 1960s rock-and-roll rebellion and the more recent "carnivalization" of sports.Original, exhilarating, and deeply optimistic, Dancing in the Streets concludes that we are innately social beings, impelled to share our joy and therefore able to envision, even create, a more peaceable future.
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Discover the History of Collective Joy!

This book is perfect for those interested in understanding the historical importance of collective celebrations such as feasts, costuming, and dancing in human society. The author beautifully connects various cultures and time periods to explain how these collective celebrations reflect the social nature of humans. It is a unique and insightful read that will leave readers feeling more connected to human history and identity.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.