Archaeological approaches to dance performance / edited by Kathryn Soar, Christina Aamodt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Soar, Kathryn, editor.

Aamodt, Christina, editor.

European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting 2009 : Riva del Garda, Italy)

Series:

BAR international series ; 2622.

BAR international series ; 2622

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--History--Congresses.

Dance.

Ethnoarchaeology--Congresses.

Ethnoarchaeology.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

i, 94 pages : illustrations, map ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2014.

Contents:

Archaeological approaches to dance performance: an introduction / Kathryn Soar and Christina Aamodt

Archaeology of dance / Yosef Garfinkel

Who is the ancient Egyptian dancer? / Batyah Schachter

Dance dating in the Old Kingdom; formal rules, step 1: know thy dances. Establishing a typology of Old Kingdom dance / Lesley J. Kinney

Dance in the prehistoric Aegean / Christina Aamodt

The dance of death: dancing in Athenian funerary rituals / Hugh Thomas

Dancers' representations and the function of dance in Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD) Chinese society / Marta Zuchowska

Warrior dance, social ordering and the process of polis formation in early iron age Crete / Anna Lucia D'Agata

Revel without a cause? Dance, performance and Greek vase-painting / Tyler Jo Smith.

Notes:

"The present volume is the outcome of a session held at the 15th European Archaeological Association conference at Lake Garda in Italy, in September 2009"--p. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407312576

140731257X

OCLC:

878976722