Chorea Minor, Chorea Major, Choreomania: Entangled Medical and Colonial Histories

TY - CHAP

T1 - Chorea Minor, Chorea Major, Choreomania: Entangled Medical and Colonial Histories

AU - Gotman, Kelina

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - This work shows that although the notion of the "dancing mania" is widely received today as a form of collective hysteria associated with nervous tics, this idea emerged in the mid nineteenth century, as medical historians and colonial physicians compared events that they believed held erratic, involuntary motion in common in the European Middle Ages and in parts of the colonial world alike.

AB - This work shows that although the notion of the "dancing mania" is widely received today as a form of collective hysteria associated with nervous tics, this idea emerged in the mid nineteenth century, as medical historians and colonial physicians compared events that they believed held erratic, involuntary motion in common in the European Middle Ages and in parts of the colonial world alike.

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-3-89487-710-1

T3 - Jahrbuch Tanzforschung

SP - 83

EP - 97

BT - Tanz und WahnSinn / Dance and ChoreoMania

A2 - Birringer, Johannes

A2 - Fenger, Josephine

PB - Henschel Verlag

CY - Leipzig

ER -