Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture / / Yosef Garfinkel.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Dance Analysis
- chapter 1 Introduction
- chapter 2 Structural Analysis of the Dance
- chapter 3 Functional Analysis of the Dance
- chapter 4 Cognitive Analysis of the Dancing Scenes
- chapter 5 Conclusions
- Part II The Data
- chapter 6 General Remarks Concerning the Data
- chapter 7 Neolithic Near East
- chapter 8 Halafian and Samarra Cultures
- chapter 9 Neolithic and Chalcolithic Iran
- chapter 10 Neolithic Southeast Europe
- chapter 11 Predynastic Egypt
- chapter 12 Later Examples from the Near East
- chapter 13 Appendix: The Figures with “Turned-Upwards Legs”
- Bibliography
- Index