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Dancing in the Streets

Dancing in the Streets A History of Collective Joy

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Publisher's Synopsis

An account of the human desire for collective joy. Barbara Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance.

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Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780805057249
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 394.26
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 308g
Height: 203mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 28mm

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