Bibliography of Publications

Dr. Drid Williams

Theses

1972. Social Anthropology and the Dance. B.Litt. Thesis, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
1975. The Role of Movement in Selected Symbolic Systems. D.Phil. Thesis, Oxford University.

Books

1990. With Brenda Farnell. The Laban Script: A Beginning Text on Movement Writing for Non-Dancers. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands Studies.
1991. Ten Lectures on Theories of the Dance. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.
1999. Beyond Survival. Beaverton, OR: High Ground. An autobiography.
2003. Signifying Bodies: Signifying Acts: New Ways of Thinking about Human Movement. Unpublished manuscript. Chapters 1-3 were published in JASHM 24(2) in 2017 and 4-6 in JASHM 25(1) in 2018.
2004. Anthropology and the Dance: Ten Lectures. Champaign: University of Illinois Press. (2nd edition of Ten Lectures on Theories of the Dance. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press [1991]).
2011. Teaching Dancing with Ideokinetic Principles. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
2013. The Dog Has Five Legs. Columbus, OH: Biblio Publishing.

Edited Volumes

1995. With Senanu Kwadzo. Creative Use of Language in Kenya. Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation.
1996. The Signs of Human Action. Guest Editor. Visual Anthropology 8 (2-4).
1997. Anthropology and Human Movement, 1: The Study of Dances. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
2000. Anthropology and Human Movement, 2: Searching for Origins. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
2002. With Sangmi Sin. Illyuhak gwa ingan ui umjigim: Muyong yeongu. Seoul: Daehan midieo.

Journal Articles

1968. The Dance of the Bedu Moon. African Arts/Arts d'Afrique 2(1): 18–72.
1970a. Dance and Krachi Tradition. Insight and Opinion 5(3): 71–98.
1970b. With J. S. Steemers and J. E. K. Kumah. Sokodae. Come and Dance! African Arts 3(3): 36-80.
1972a. Signs, Symptoms, and Symbols. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 3(10): 24-32.
1972b. Women in Between. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 5(2): 131–32.
1974. A Note on the Human Action Sign and the Language Machine. Dance Research Journal. Congress of Research on Dance (CORD) 7(1): 8-9.
1976a. Deep Structures of the Dance, Part 1: Constituent Syntagmatic Analysis. Journal of Human Movement Studies 2(3): 123-44.
1976b. Deep Structures of the Dance, Part 2: The Conceptual Space of the Dance. Journal of Human Movement Studies 2(3): 155-71.
1976c. An Exercise in Applied Personal Anthropology. Dance Research Journal (CORD) 9(1): 16-30.
1976d. Jargon: A Social Anthropological Comment on Labanotation. Momentum 4(1): 40-51.
1977. The Arms and Hands, with Special Reference to an Anglo-Saxon Sign System. Semiotica 21(1-2): 23-73.
1980a. On Structures of Human Movement: A Reply to Gell. Journal of Human Movement Studies 6(4): 303-22.
1980b. Taxonomies of the Body with Special Reference to the Ballet, Part 1. JASHM 1(1): 1-19.
1980c. Taxonomies of the Body with Special Reference to the Ballet, Part 2. JASHM 1(2): 88-122.
1981a. Drid Williams Replies. Dance Research Journal 13(2): 46-47.
1981b. Introduction. JASHM 1(4): 207-25.
1981c. On Human Movement Potential: A Review Article. JASHM 1(4): 288-93.
1982a. On the Dance: A Reply to Margolis’s Ideas about the ‘Autographic’ Nature of the Dance. JASHM 2(2): 54-70. Reprinted 2012 in special issue on movement literacy. JASHM 19(2): 22–32.
1982b. On the Guardian Angels. JASHM 2(1). 54 pages.
1984a. Creating the Space. Aperture 95: 72–74.
1984b. Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology and Its Relation to Semasiology. JASHM (3)1: 35-48.
1986a. Looking Back. JASHM 4(1): 56-65.
1986b. Prefigurements of Art: A Reply to Sebeok. JASHM 4(2): 68-90.
1987. Survey of Australian Literature on Dancing. JASHM 4(4): 189-247. Reprinted in 2011. Drid Williams: The Australian Papers. JASHM 18(1-2): 75–105.
1990. The Representation and Reality of Religion in Dance. JASHM 6(2): 72-85.
1991. Substitutions, Alternatives, or Equivalents? JASHM 6(4): 169-79.
1993a. An Author’s Comments. JASHM 7(3): 170-73.
1993b. Australia: Traditional Aboriginal Dances. JASHM 7(3): 143-53.
1994a. The Latin High Mass: The Dominican Tridentine Rite. JASHM 8(2): 1-87 (with foreword by David Pocock, i-v, and preface by the author, vii-xii).
1994b. Self-Reflexivity: A Critical Overview. JASHM 8(1): 1-10.
1995. An Appreciation [of Douglas Baynton's work]. JASHM 8(4): 174-89.
1996a. Ceci n'est pas un “Wallaby.” Visual Anthropology 8(2-4): 197-218. Reprinted in 2011. JASHM 18(12): 56-71.
1996b. The Credibility of Movement-Writing. JASHM 9(2):73-89.
1996c. Discussion: A Little Knowledge. Visual Anthropology 8(2-4): 245-58.
1996d. Minha Punka: The Wallaby Dance. JASHM 6(2): 39-56. Reprinted in Drid Williams: The Australian Papers. JASHM 18(12): 45-55.
1997. A Reply to Grau. Ethnomusicology 41(2): 291-96.
1998a. Commentary: Human Actions as Primary Bearers of Meaning. JASHM 10(2): 93–102.
1998b. Messages, Meaning and the Moving Body. Visual Anthropology 10: 87-97.
1999a. The Credibility of Movement Writing. Visual Anthropology 12: 365-90.
1999b. The Roots of Semasiology. JASHM 10(3): 109-80.
2000. The Cultural Appropriation of Dances and Ceremonies. Visual Anthropology 13: 345-62.
2001a. Korean Society of Dance Conference (Report). Dance Research Journal (CORD) 33(1): 113-15.
2001b. Waltzing in the Dark. Visual Anthropology 14(2): 213–18.
2002. Signifying Actions: Toward an Anthropology of Human Movement. JASHM 12(2): 43-53.
2004a. Converging Movement. Visual Anthropology 17(1): 103–6.
2004b. In the Shadow of Hollywood Orientalism: Authentic East Indian Dancing. Visual Anthropology 17(1): 69-98. Originally published in JASHM 12(3): 78-99.
2004c. Modes of Continuity and Change in Action Sign Systems. JASHM 13(1): 29-60.
2005a. Editorial Comments: A Problem. JASHM 13(4): i–iv.
2005b. Modes of Continuity and Change in Action Sign Systems. Visual Anthropology 18(4): 339-71.
2006a. African Dances/Aesthetics. JASHM 14(2): 111-14.
2006b. Australian Aborigines--Dances and Dancing. JASHM 14(2): 115-21.
2007. On Choreometrics. Visual Anthropology 20(2/3): 233–39.
2008a. Anthropology and Art: The Cross-Cultural Problem. JASHM 15(2).
2008b. Contemporary Art and Anthropology. Visual Anthropology Review 21(5): 429-39.
2008c. The Sorrow of the Dance Analysts. Visual Anthropology 21(2): 151-55.
2009a. Bollywood: Postmodernism's Legacy to the International Dance World. Visual Anthropology 23(1): 20-32.
2009b. Remarks on the Occasion of the Conference Banquet. JASHM 16: 1-4.
2009c. Visual Anthropology and Language. Visual Anthropology 22(5): 369-83.
2010. The Concept of Agency in Semasiology. JASHM 17(1).
2011a. With Stephen A. Wild. Aboriginal Dancing. JASHM 18(1-2): 72-74.
2011b. Homo Nullius: The Status of Traditional Aboriginal Dancing in Northern Queensland. JASHM 18(1-2): 31–44.
2011c. On the Idea of ‘Aboriginality’: Some Thoughts on the Proposed Curriculum for Eleventh- and Twelfth-Grade Students in New South Wales. JASHM 18(1-2): 5–9.
2011d. Reflections on Doing Anthropology 'at Home.' JASHM 18(1-2): 10-20.
2011e. With John Von Sturmer. Wanam Revisited. JASHM 18(1-2): 21–30.
2012. In Memoriam: Dr. Marjorie Franken. JASHM 19(1): 35.
2013. Dance Education: A Response to Elizabeth Dempster. JASHM 20(1): 10-14.
2014a. Philosophy and Human Movement: A Tribute to David Best. JASHM 21(1).
2014b. With Paul Hockings, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Jay Ruby, David MacDougall, Albert Piette, Maureen T. Schwarz, and Silvio Carta. Where Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology? Visual Anthropology 27(5): 436-56.
2015. Style in the Dance and Human Movement Studies. Visual Anthropology 28(3): 199-207.

Book Chapters

1967. The Dancer's Environment in Ghana. Impulse: Annual of Contemporary Dance. San Francisco: 32-36.
1975. The Brides of Christ. In Perceiving Women (ed. S. Ardener). London: Malaby Press: 105-26.
1979. The Human Action Sign and Semasiology. In CORD Research Annual (New York University) 10: 39-64.
1982. ‘Semasiology’: A Semantic Anthropologist's View of Human Movements and Actions. In Semantic Anthropology (ed. D. Parkin). London: Academic Press: 161–82.
1986. (Non)Anthropologists, the Dance, and Human Movement. In Theatrical Movement: A Bibliographical Anthology (ed. B. Fleshman). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press: 158-220.
1993. The Sokodae: A West African Dance. In Cultural Research (ed. Tahir Shah). London: Octagon Press: 63-90.
1994. “Tanz”--Aboriginal Australia. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Allgemenine Enzyklopädie der Musik (ed. Ludwig Finscher). Kassel, DE: Bärenreiter and J.B. Metzler.
1995a. Foreword. In Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance (ed. B. Farnell). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press: v-vii.
1995b. Space, Intersubjectivity and the Conceptual Imperative: Three Ethnographic Cases.
In Human Action Signs in Cultural Context: The Visible and the Invisible in Movement and Dance (ed. B. Farnell). Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press: 44-81.
1996. Traditional Danced Spaces. Concepts of Deixis and the Staging of non-Western Dances. In Tanzkunst, Ritual und Büehne: Begegnungen zwischen Kulturen (ed. S. Schmiderer and M. Nürnberger) Frankfurt am Main: IKO Verlag fuer inter-kulturelle Kommunikation: 141-75. Also published in 1993 Proceedings of the Society of Dance History Scholars 16: 255–63.
1999. Fieldwork. In Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography (ed. T. Buckland). London: Palgrave Macmillan: 26-40.
2017. With JoAnne Page, Andree Grau, Fiona Magowan, Megan Jones Morais, Ronnie Arnold and Adrienne Kaeppler. Traditional Australian Dance. In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 9, Australia and the Pacific Islands (ed. A. Kaeppler and J. W. Love). London: Routledge. Chapter 23, ebook edition (no page numbers).

Book Reviews and Review Essays

1974a. Review Number Two of Choreometrics Discussion in Folk–Song Style and Culture: A Staff Report (1968) by Alan Lomax. Dance Research Journal 6(2): 25-29.
1974b. Review of Dance in Society: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Social Dance and Society in England from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (1969) by Francis Rust. Dance Research Journal 6(2): 29-31.
1974c. Review of Method and Theory in Analyzing Dance Structure with an Analysis of Tongan Dance (1972) by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. Dance Research Journal 7(1): 34-35.
1975. Review of Expression in Movement and the Arts: A Philosophical Enquiry (1974) by David Best. Dance Research Journal 7(1): 25-26.
1976. Review of The Nature of Dance: An Anthropological Perspective (1975) by Roderyk Lange. Dance Research Journal 9(1): 42-44.
1979. Review of The Anthropology of Dance (1977) by Anya Peterson Royce. Ethnomusicology 23(3): 468-70.
1980. Review of Philosophy and Human Movement (1978) by David Best. Ethnomusicology 33(2): 294-97.
1984. Review of The Dance of Life (1983) by E.T. Hall JASHM 3(4): 218-26.
1993. Review of Physical Being: A Theory for Corporeal Psychology (1991) by Rom Harré. JASHM 7(4): 249-66.
1995a. Review of Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation (1994) by Corinne A. Kratz. American Ethnologist 22(2): 427.
1995b. Review of The Human Use of Signs or Elements of Anthroposemiosis (1994) by John N. Deely. JASHM 8(3): 124–33.
1995c. Review of Music and Dance in Puerto Rico from the Age of Columbus to Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography (1991) by Donald Thompson and Annie F. Thompson. Ethnomusicology 39(2): 301-4.
2001. Review of Researching Dance (1999) (ed. Sandra Horton Fraleigh and Penelope Hanstein). JASHM 11(3): 387-411.
2005a. Review of The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory (2003) by Helen Thomas. Visual Anthropology 18(5): 465–76.
2005b. Review of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (2004) by Adrienne L. McLean, Visual Anthropology 18(5): 485–88.
2005c. Review of Studying Dance Cultures around the World: An Introduction to Multicultural Dance Education (2004) by Pegge Vissicaro. JASHM 13(3): 171-87.

Conference Papers and Additional Manuscripts

1978. Sacred Spaces: A Preliminary Enquiry into the Latin Tridentine Mass. Paper for the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, London, Ontario, May.
1983. A New Paradigm in Movement Research. Keynote Address for the Association of Dance Ethnologists, University of California, Los Angeles, April 15.
1989a. A Guide to Critical Essay-Writing for M.A. Preliminary and M.A. Students in the Dance and the Arts of Human Movement Study. Sydney: University of Sydney Printing Service.
1989b. A Handbook for M.A. Students in the Anthropology of Human Movement. Sydney: University of Sydney Printing Service.
1990a. The Drid Williams Papers: Unpublished Materials from the "Dance Lectureship." Sydney, NSW.: University of Sydney, Department of Music. Manuscript.
1990b. A Sign of Human Action, the Latin High Mass: An Ethnography of the Dominican Rite of the Post-Tridentine Mass. University of Sydney, Department of Music. Manuscript.