Sound, Dance and Motion from Franz Boas’s Field Research in British Columbia to Franziska Boas’s Dance Therapy

Irene Candelieri

doi:10.2478/gth-2020-0020

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Sound, Dance and Motion from Franz Boas’s Field Research in British Columbia to Franziska Boas’s Dance Therapy

Gestalt Theory

Volume 42 (2020): Issue 3 (December 2020)

By: Irene Candelieri

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|Dec 2020

Abstract

The article briefly introduces a path, that starts from the Franz Boas’ anthropological field research in British Columbia about sound, dance and motion among the Indians until the 1930s to the practice of dance and sound as a therapeutic issue in Franziska Boas’ work in New York.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2020-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2519-5808 | Journal ISSN: 0170-057X

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Keywords:

Franz Boas,

Franziska Boas,

Erich Moritz von Hornbostel,

dance,

rhythm,

motion

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Literary studies,

Topics in literary studies,

Psychology, psychoanalysis,

Medicine,

Clinical medicine,

Psychiatry, psychotherapy,

Mathematics,

History and philosophy,

Social sciences,

Sociology,

Social structures, social interaction, population, social anthropology

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