{"product_id":"tribal-dancing-9781906830014","title":"Tribal Dancing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): W. D. Hambly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: David Leonard\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: David Leonard\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Dance - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... a slave or an old man was seized and carried off to the bush ... what there befell him nobody could tell, but it is certain that a few days later the masked band returned to the village with a finger, a toe, a bit of skin, or some other part of the captive fastened to a pole ...\" The American born, Oxford educated anthropologist, Wilfrid Dyson Hambly (born 1886) lived and worked at a time when missionaries and other \"civilising\" influences had not completely destroyed the ways of life of primitive peoples, and his Tribal Dancing and Social Development, first published in 1927, remains a major resource in its field. Hambly surveyed dancing and music as a communal activity and expression of emotion from the cradle to the grave, beginning with the celebration of a birth and ending with the dance which follows death - often long after death, like the dance in the Nicobarese ceremony of disinterring the dead and collecting their bones. Hambly casts his net wide: ranging from ancient Egypt and the Inca civilisations of South America to North American Indians, Zulu Warriors, and the extinct Aborigines of Tasmania. The result is not only a major scholarly document, but an enthralling reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Leonard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46882664087703,"sku":"9781906830014","price":2606.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781906830014.webp?v=1770235930","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/tribal-dancing-9781906830014","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}