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Judith Lynne Hanna

(1936) Anthropologist

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Judith Lynne Hanna is an anthropologist, best known for The anthropology of dance.

Quick Facts About Judith Lynne Hanna

Born: January 1, 1936
Profession: Anthropologist
Notable works: The anthropology of dance

About Judith Lynne Hanna

Judith Lynne Hanna is an American anthropologist, scholar, and author. She is an affiliate research professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses the relationship between dance and society in African villages and places of social interaction in America, such as schools and entertainment clubs. She has also conducted research on African cities, urban studies, and at-risk youth.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Judith Lynne Hanna

Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism…

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Compounds

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Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve…

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Attention

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It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its…

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Dance

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In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect…

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Anticipate

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Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

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Beast

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In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with…

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Choices

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Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified…

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Adults

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He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension…

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Areas

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Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

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Catharsis

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In the United States and other countries, there has been a decline in public and private support of the arts, including dance.…

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Art

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Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to…

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Aim

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Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages,…

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Contrary

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The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and…

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Change

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The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent…

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Achieve

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Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

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Energy

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Judith Lynne Hanna by topic

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