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World dance cultures : from ritual to spectacle / by Beaman, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…India : devotion, dance, mythology -- Bali and Java : from temple, to village, to court -- Cambodia and China : dance as a political tool -- Japan : entertaining samurai, merchants, and rebels -- Hawai'i, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea : keepers of culture -- Africa : fertility festivals, death ceremonies, and ancestor worship -- North Africa, Turkey, and Spain : healing, worship, expression -- Native America, the Caribbean, South America : activism, spirituality, spectacle.…”