Dance anthropology has always been a cross-disciplinary product,and its disciplinary construc-tion has been expanded,accumulated,and advanced on the basis of continuous questioning and re-exami-nation and reflection by scholars.As a cross-disciplinary discipline,dance anthropology has two main re-search paths:one is to follow and apply traditional anthropological methods,using dance as a case study to validate existing understanding;and the other is to take movement research as the core to find a theoretical connection between anthropological theories and human bodily activities as represented by dance.Movement is the central object of dance anthropology,and dance is a cultural model based on the kinesthetic experi-ence of the body,which is unlike ordinary human behavioras it has inherent linguistic symbolism and aes-thetic value.In the world,the promotion of a non-Western,non-modern concept of dance can truly en-rich the content of dance anthropology,and the experience of world's multiculturalism is the soil in which the theory of dance anthropology maintains its vitality.