Doesn't a dance require dancers?

N. S. Thompson*, Jaan Valsiner

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume25
Issue number5
Pages (from-to)641-642
Number of pages2
ISSN0140-525X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2002

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