Beaman, Patricia, <br/><br/>
World dance cultures :  from ritual to spectacle / 
Patricia Leigh Beaman. 
 - xx, 287 pages ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>P.B 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781138907737 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dance--Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Dance--Anthropological aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1588.6  / B43 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>793.3