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Doesn't a dance require dancers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

N. S. Thompson  and
Jaan Valsiner
N. S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610 nthompson@clarku.edu
Jaan Valsiner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610 jvalsiner@clarku.edu
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Abstract

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The dance metaphor of ape-human communication is valuable and needs to be pressed to its logical conclusion. When couples dance, they are both choreographers and dancers, and the dance arises dialectically out of the “peractions” of the dancers. We suppose that the way in which scientists communicate with their apes emerges by an analogous process.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 641 - 642
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press