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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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Cross-cultural studies, Dance, Drill and minor tactics, Military History, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Dance, Psychological aspects of Rhythm, Psychology of Movement, Rhythm, Unit cohesion (Military science), World history, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Movement, psychology of, Rythme, Aspect psychologique, Études transculturelles, Danse, Psychomotricité, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, Popular Culture, HISTORY / World, Tanz, Dans, Gemeenschapszin, Lichaamsbeweging, Ritme, Histoire universelle, Histoire militaire, Exercices et tactiques élémentaires, Mouvement, Esthétique duShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Keeping together in time: dance and drill in human history
1995, Harvard University Press
in English
0674502299 9780674502291
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-190) and index.
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