Art and intimacy : how the arts began /
"Ellen Dissanayake argues for the joint evolutionary origin of art and intimacy, what we commonly call love. Because humans are born predisposed to respond to and use rhythmic-modal signals, societies everywhere have elaborated them further as music, mime, dance, and display, in rituals which i...
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Seattle, Wa :
University of Washington Press,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- Mutuality
- Belonging
- Finding and making meaning
- Hands-on competence
- Elaborating
- Taking the arts seriously
- Appendix : toward a naturalistic aesthetics.
