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100 1 $aMcNeill, William Hardy,$d1917-2016.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007853
245 10 $aKeeping together in time :$bdance and drill in human history /$cWilliam H. McNeill.
260 $aCambridge, Ma :$bHarvard University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9509
300 $aviii, 198 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
520 8 $aThe 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.
520 8 $aMcNeill 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.
650 0 $aRhythm$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113833
650 0 $aRhythm$xPsychological aspects$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aDance$xPsychological aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009122835
650 0 $aDance$xPsychological aspects$vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 $aMovement, Psychology of.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088014
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852 00 $bglx$hBF474$i.M37 1995