ABSTRACT
Our initial hypothesis held that dance itself is an adumbration of or derived communication about life, focused on those favored dynamic pat terns which most successfully and frequently animated the everyday activity of most of the people in a culture. Following this suggestion and before be ginning the search for metrical pattern in song, we adopted the strategy of searching for the redundant patterns discoverable in the everyday activity of a culture that resembled the stylized forms of its dances. Indeed, this was essentially how Bateson and Mead proceeded in their study of the relation ship between child-rearing practices and trance and dance in Bali (Bateson and Mead, 1942).
