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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garfinkel, Yosef (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, June 2003.
Subjects:
Art, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region.
Art, Prehistoric > Middle East.
Dance in art.
Dance, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region.
Dance, Prehistoric > Middle East.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Middle East.
Danse dans l'art.
Agriculture, Prehistoric
Antiquities
Art, Prehistoric
Dance in art
Dance, Prehistoric
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Middle East > Antiquities.
Moyen-Orient > Antiquités.
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: 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 2: 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.

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