Dancing Culture Religion

by Sam Gill

Book Overview

In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, and Baudrillard. As a scholar of religion, Gill provides special consideration to the importance of this emerging appreciation of dancing as a perspective inclusive of body and experience. Each chapter delves into the many...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073917472X
• ISBN13: 9780739174722
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher