Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Collective behavior
Social groups
Social action
Fasts and feasts
Festivals
Community life
Happiness
Long Now Manual for Civilization
History
"Cultural historian Ehrenreich explores a human impulse that has been so effectively suppressed that we lack even a term for it: the desire for collective joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. She uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human bio…
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