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Paperback Cherokee Dance and Drama (Volume 163) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series) Book

ISBN: 0806125802

ISBN13: 9780806125800

Cherokee Dance and Drama (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

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Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to legend, the dance songs bequeathed to them by the Stone Coat monster will assuage all the ills of life that the monster brought. Winter dance (including the Booger Dance, which expresses the Cherokees' anxiety at the white invasion) are to be given only during times of frost, lest they affect the growth of vegetation by attracting cold and death. The summer dance (the Green Corn Ceremony and the Ballplayer's Dance) are associated with crops and vegetation. Other dances are purely for social intercourse and entertainment or are prompted by specific events in the community. When it was first published in 1951, this description of the dances of a conservative Eastern Cherokee band was hailed as a scholarly contribution that could not be duplicated, Frank G. Speak and Leonard Broom had achieved the close and sustained interaction that very best ethnological fieldwork requires. Their principal informant, Will West Long, upheld the unbroken ceremonial tradition of the Big Cove band, near Cherokee, North Carolina. The late Frank G. Speck, a distinguished American ethnographer, was associated with the University of Pennsylvania throughout his academic life. Leonard Broom has conducted research chiefly on ethnic and racial minorities and no social mobility and stratification. He is Professor Emeritus in the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, Canberra, and Research Associate in Sociology in the University of California, Santa Barbara "[Cherokee Dance and Drama] is a valuable source of reliable information concerning some of the traditional dances and ceremonies of the Eastern Cherokees. Many of the dances described are no longer practiced and without this record the ceremonies would be largely unavailable for researchers into the Cherokee tribal history and folklore."---American Indian Quarterly This description may be from another edition of this product.

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