{"product_id":"9781906830014","title":"Tribal Dancing","description":"\"... 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 ...\"\u003cp\u003eThe American born, Oxford educated anthropologist, Wilfrid Dyson \u003cbr\u003eHambly (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHambly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHambly casts his net wide: ranging from ancient Egypt and the Inca civilisations of South America to North American Indians, Zulu Warriors, \u003cbr\u003eand the extinct Aborigines of Tasmania. The result is not only a major scholarly document, but an enthralling reading experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dance Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057751933168,"sku":"9781906830014","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906830014_p0.jpg?v=1763617187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906830014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}