Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History

Printed on demand

Estimated despatch time 7 - 10 days

Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History - Dance and Drill in Human History

About
Reviews
Explore

About

An exploration of the possibility that co-ordinated rhythmic movement and the shared feelings it evokes has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. The author maintains that people who move together to the same beat tend to bond, and examines dance as a shaper of evolution.

Reviews

In his imaginative and provocative book...William H. McNeill develops an unconventional notion that, he observes, is 'simplicity itself.' He maintains that people who move together to the same beat tend to bond and thus that communal dance and drill alter human feelings. -- John Mueller

Book

Contents

Download queue