Ilene, you wrote: >>> On the subject of codes, this morning I came across this Victorian dance code article that I find very interesting and think it's well worth the read for those interested in codices... http://www.victoriana.com/Etiquette/ballroomdancing.htm <<<
Utterly fascinating, Ilene - thanks very much. One of the great things about tangoandchaos.org is the deeply personal and extensively detailed set of experiences Rick McGarrey shared about his years of encounters with various codigos - I was going to try to pull out a page ref, but his server is slow today...plus, I don't think they are really collected in one place, if I remember right. Much like the field of comparative physiology explores how Nature has solved similar physiological problems in different species (ex: how sharks and dolphins solve the problems of being open-ocean top predators in such very different ways) it could be fascinating to do a "comparative codigos" study... Anyway, your Victorian gem motivated a quick Google search for "milonga codes" - for academically inclined French readers among us, there's a fascinating sounding downloadable legal article which uses milongas and their codes as an example of "everyday law" in the realms of personal status, contract law (!) and highway codes (!!) (includes abstract in English): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138280 It's thirty-five pages long, but for myself I hope some Francophone is motivated to harvest some small goodies through translation for the rest of us... All the best, Brian Dunn Dance of the Heart www.danceoftheheart.com "Building a Better World, One Tango at a Time" _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
