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AT a joint meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the English Folk Dance Society, and the Folk Lore Society, held on Tuesday, November 23, in the Parry Theatre of the Royal College of Music, Miss Violet Alford read a paper on “The Ritual Dance,” which was illustrated by a number of English and other folk dances performed by members of the English Folk Dance Society. As the author dealt with the anthropological side of the dances, the illustrations were classified according to the function in primitive ritual which they were intended to fulfil, so far as this could be deduced from the character of the form in which they have survived.
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Folk Dances as a Survival of Primitive Ritual. Nature 118, 824 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118824a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118824a0