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Dance and Drill

Daoism
Darwin, Charles

Dating Methods
Decipherment of
Ancient Scripts
Decolonization

Deforestation

Delhi Sultanate
Democracy, Constitutional
Dance and
Descartes, René

Desertification Drill

Détente
ngaging in community dance and/or military drill
Diasporas
Eby moving rhythmically together for lengthy periods
Dictionaries and of time is a very effective way of arousing shared and
Encyclopedias friendly feelings among the participants.This effect is rein-

Diplomacy forced by music and voicing, all the way from band music
and choral singing to drill sergeants’ shouts of “Hut, Hip,
Disease and Nutrition Hip, Four.” Somehow moving muscles together in time,

Diseases—Overview with voices backing up the rhythmic beat, makes people
feel good, wipes out old grudges, and smooths over per-
Diseases, Animal
sonal rivalries. Even when the immediate excitement
Diseases, Plant subsides, such exercises leave a residue of fellow-feeling
and readiness to cooperate.This had important effects in
Displaced Populations,
times past and still exhibits itself in religion, war, politics,
Typology of
and innumerable social settings where people dance,
Dress sing, and keep together in time.
Drugs Exactly how shared feelings are aroused when we
dance, sing, and march is not accurately known. Hor-
Du Bois, W. E. B. mones and the sympathetic nervous system are surely

Dutch East India Company involved; so are parts of the brain. Suffice it to say that
such behavior and their results are both unique to and
Dutch Empire
universal among human beings. Only humans engage in
community dancing and music-making; and all known
human societies do both. Only a few, however, har-
nessed this human response to keeping together in time
for military purposes, though those that did so profited
from the superior cooperation and morale of soldiers
who drilled regularly for long periods of time.