Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture : Dance and Display at the Beginning of Farming.
As the nomadic hunters and gatherers of the ancient Near East turned to agriculture for their livelihood and settled into villages, religious ceremonies involving dancing became their primary means for bonding individuals into communities and households into villages. So important was dance that sce...
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
June 2003.
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