ANTA02H3 Lecture 11: lecture_11
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It"s a huge topic, it could cover a whole course: two examples, mariage ritual from the kuna called the dragging , bride and groom would not choose each other, but their parents would arrange the marriage secretly. The groom"s friends would traditionally surprise him and drag him down the street. (now a days, they don"t fight back so hard and they know ahead of time). His friends run down the street with him yelling, groom! Groom! and bring him to the house of his bride, and throw him in a hammock. They throw the bride in on top of the groom and swing the couple back and forth. Usually the groom runs out and then they have to drag him back. After a couple rounds of this they throw a burning brand in underneath the hammock with the couple in it and that"s it for the day.
