The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393065367
ISBN13:9780393065367
Release Date:February 2013
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:448 Pages
Weight:2.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 7.0" x 9.5"
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