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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
O'Neill, Daniel, "Etiology of the Dancing Plague", InterCulture, 2/3 (2005), 18 pp.
- Resum
- The phenomenon of dancing mania (also Dancing Plague or choreomania) has manifested itself in various forms in cultures throughout the world since its first recorded emergence at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The Dancing Plague has often piqued the curiosity of scientists and scholars who believe that some variation of this phenomenon has played a role in many events of mythological, historical, and literary significance, including the Legend of the Pied Piper, the Salem Witch Trials, Tarantism in Italy, and the French Revolution. In this paper I will first outline the phylogenic relationships between the many known forms of choreas or dancing diseases. Then I will examine putative causal mechanisms of a defined version of dancing mania and explore how these proposed causes manifested themselves in some of the aforementioned historical contexts. Finally, I will discuss how dancing mania potentially exists today through the Snake Handlers of Appalachia.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
- URL
- http://interculture.fsu.edu/pdfs/oneill%20dancing%2 ...
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