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1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
In Keeping Together in Time one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement - and the shared feelings it evokes - has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. As he has done for historical phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of power, William McNeill brings a dazzling breadth and depth of knowledge to his study of dance and drill in human history. From the records of distant and ancient peoples to the latest findings of the life sciences, he discovers evidence that rhythmic movement has played a profound role in creating and sustaining human communities. The behavior of chimpanzees, festival village dances, the close-order drill of early modern Europe, the ecstatic dance-trances of shamans and dervishes, the goose-stepping Nazi formations, the morning exercises of factory workers in Japan - all these and many more figure in the bold picture McNeill draws. A sense of community is the key, and shared movement, whether dance or military drill, is its mainspring. McNeill focuses on the visceral and emotional sensations such movement arouses, particularly the euphoric fellow-feeling he calls "muscular bonding." These sensations, he suggests, endow groups with a capacity for cooperation, which in turn improves their chance of survival. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rhythm -- Psychological aspects.
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Rhythm -- Psychological aspects. |
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Rhythm -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies.
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| Subject |
Dance -- Psychological aspects.
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Dance -- Psychological aspects. |
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Dance -- Psychological aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Movement, Psychology of.
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Movement, Psychology of. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McNeill, William Hardy, 1917- Keeping together in time. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1995 (DLC) 95008794 |
| ISBN |
0674502299 |
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9780674502291 |
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9780674040878 (electronic book) |
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0674040872 (electronic book) |
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9780674502307 |
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