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ONEOF HUMANITY'S OLDEST TRADITIONS:THE CELEBRATIONOF COMMUNALJOY\n\nIn the highly acclaimed Blood Rites,Barbara Ehrenreichdelved into the origins of our species'attraction to war.Here,she explores the opposite human inclination,onethat is equally universal and deep-rooted,yet has beenso effectively suppressed that welack even a convenientphrase for it:the desire for collective joy,expressedthroughout the ages in ecstatic celebrations of feasting,costuming,and dancing.  \nDrawing on a wealth of history and anthropol-ogy,Ehrenreich uncovers the deep origins of commu-nal revelry in human biology and culture.AlthoughEuropeans from the sixteenth century onwardviewed mass festivities as foreign and“savage,”Ehren-reich shows that they were in fact indigenous to theWest,from the ancient Greeks'worship of Dionysusto the medieval practice of Christianity as a\"dancedreligion.”Ultimately,church officials succeeded indriving the festivities out of the churches and into thestreets(where they became\"carnival\").Following thesame pattern of repression,Reformation Protestantscriminalized carnival,Wahhabist Muslims battledecstatic Sufism,and European colonizers wiped outnative danced rituals.Elite fears that collective festiv-ities would undermine social hierarchies were notentirely unjustified:the festive tradition inspiredFrench revolutionary crowds and countless uprisingsof slaves and colonized peoples from the Caribbeanto West Africa to the American plains.  \nYet a tradition so deeply ingrained is not easy toannihilate,Ehrenreich argues,pointing to recent out-breaks ofgroup revelry,from the rock’n’roll rebellionof the 1950s-'60s to the “carnivalization”of sportsevents in the 1980s-'90s.Original,exhilarating,andprofoundly optimistic,Dancing in the Strets concludesthat we are innately social beings,impelled almostinstinctively to share our joy,and therefore able toenvision,perhaps even create,a more peaceful future.  \nALso BY BARBARA EHRENREICH  \nBait and Switch:The(Futile)Pusuit of the American DreamGlobal Woman:Nannies,Maids,and Sex Workers in the New Economy(with Arlie Russell Hochschild)  \nNickel and Dimed:On(Not)Getting By in America  \nBlood Rites:Origins and History of the Passions of War  \nThe Snarling Citizen  \nKipper's Game  \nThe Worst Years of Our Lives:Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed  \nFear of Falling:The Inner Life of the Middle Class  \nThe Hearts of Men:American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment  \nRe-making Love:The Feminization of Sex(with Elizabeth Hess and GloriaJacobs)  \nFor Her Own Good:Tiwo Centuries of the Experts'Advice to Women(with Deirdre English)  \nWitches,Midwives,and Nurses:AHistory of Women Healers(with Deirdre English)  \nComplaints and Disorders:The Sexual Politics of Sickness(with Deirdre English)  \n# DANCING IN THE STREETS\n\n# DANCING\n\nIN THE  \nSTREETS  \nA HISTORY OF COLLECTIVE JoY  \nBARBARA EHRENREICH  \nMetropolitan BooksHenry Holt and Company,LLCPublisbers since 1866175 Fifth AvenueNew York,New York 10010www.henryholt.com  \nMetropolitan Books⑧andM③are registeredtrademarks of Henry Holt and Company,LLC.  \nCopyright ◎2006 by Barbara EhrenreichAll rights reserved.Distributed in Canada by H.B.Fenn and Company Ltd.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nEhrenreich,Barbara  \nDancing in the streets:a history of collective joy/Barbara Ehrenreich.—1st ed.  \np.cm.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.ISBN-13:978-0-8050-5723-2ISBN-10:0-8050-5723-4  \n1.Festivals—History.2.Fasts and feasts—History.3.Spectacular,The-History.  \n4.Collective behavior—History.5.Happiness—History.I.Title.  \nGT3940.E472007  \n394.26—dc22  \n2006046673  \nHenry Holt books are available for special promotions andpremiums.For details contact:Director,Special Markets.  \nFirst Edition 2007  \nDesigned by Kelly S.Too  \nPrinted in the United States of A","cbCaiqjgQlGYm1nB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqjgQlGYm1nB","pdf",17513746,344,"English","# From the 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