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Keĺina Gotman Examines Choreographies Of Unrest, Rethinking The Modern Formation Of Choreomania, A Fantastical Concept Across Scientific Disciplines Used To Designate The Spontaneous And Uncontrolled Movements Of Crowds. Part I: Excavating Dance In The Archive -- Obscuritas Antiquitatis: Institutions, Affiliations, Marginalia -- Madness After Foucault: Medieval Bacchanals -- Translatio: St. Vitus's Dance, Demonism, And The Early Modern -- The Convulsionaries: Antics On The French Revolutionary Stage -- Mobiles, Mobs, And Monads: Nineteenth-century Crowd Forms -- Médecine Rétrospective: Hysteria's Archival Drag -- Part Ii: Colonial And Postcolonial Stages: Scenes Of Ferment In The Field -- 'sicily Implies Asia And Africa': Tarantellas And Comparative Method -- Ecstasy-belonging In Madagascar And Brazil -- Ghost Dancing: Excess, Waste, And The American West -- 'the Gift Of Seeing Resemblances': Cargo Cults In The Antipodes -- Monstrous Grace: Blackness And The New Dance 'crazes' -- Coda: Moving Fields, Modernity, And The Bacchic Chorus. Kélina Gotman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.