Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Prehistoric Textiles, The Mummies of Ürümchi, and The Dancing Goddesses, among other works. She is professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, and lives in Utah.
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of Prehistoric Textiles, The Mummies of Ürümchi, and The Dancing Goddesses, among other works. She is professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College, and lives in Utah.
Books by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Hardback, 2013
A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.The Mummies of Ürümchi
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Paperback, 2000
In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummies lies at the center of an enormous...The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Paperback, 2014
A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
E Book, 2013
A fascinating exploration of an ancient system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of dance.Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Paperback, 2024
The 30th-anniversary edition of a historical account, called “brilliantly original” by Katha Pollitt (The Washington Post Book World), that reframed our understanding of women’s lives in early...