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The Dancing Goddesses   Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
epub | 46.29 MB | English |  Elizabeth Wayland Barber |  2013 | W. W. Norton & Company

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About The Dancing Goddesses   Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance :

A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they also took up residence in nineteenth-century Romantic literature.

Archaeologist and linguist by profession, folk dancer by avocation, Elizabeth Wayland Barber has sleuthed through ethnographic lore and archaeological reports of east and southeast Europe, translating enchanting folktales about these "dancing goddesses" as well as eyewitness accounts of traditional rituals-texts that offer new perspectives on dance in agrarian society. She then traces these goddesses and their dances back through the Romans and Greeks to the first farmers of Europe. Along the way, she locates the origins of many customs, including coloring Easter eggs and throwing...

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