The chapter 4 " Social Dance" provide the information on how social dance can serve many functions in a society. According to the text social dancing socializes. It also reflects the values of our society whose dances differ greatly from our own.
             One thing that I learned from reading about social dance is how it can be one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next. Through dance, young people can be taught how men and women behave in their society; through dance, they can practice gender-specific behaviors and attitudes. Dance also provides an arena were people can negotiate challenges to group values posed by behaviors imported from other societies.
             The other thing that I found interesting was that in the Pacific, the missionaries were deeply disturbed by the indecent dance of the natives. That dance main focus was on the lower part of the body; side to side hip swinging by the women and vigorous knee flapping by the men. Also, in New Zealand the New Zealand authorities banned all native dancing such as "the cheek to cheek and the breast-to-breast and belly-to-belly and the thigh to thigh." In traditional cook island dancing, men and women never touch each other and no one has to teach the younger the rule of dance because they learn it from their elders at parties. So, all of the points mentioned above interested me the most.
             In the Moroccan city of fez, the rules governing social dance convey
             Different messages about the way men and women should interact. Moroccan Muslims, also encounters between the sexes that, are traditionally
             Regulated by laws and customs that trace their authority to the Koran, and conservative Muslims take that to be the literal ward of God. The Koran also gives men Authority over women and enjoins women not to display themselves before men other than blood relations. Also, In contrast to the
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