DANCE 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Yanomami, Haole
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Dance 100 lecture 5 other religious dance. Wedding dances, harvest dance, whirling, hopping, ritual processions. Allowed fancy dances: hopi snake dance, hoop dances. Ceramic vases, paintings, sculptures, figures depicting dancers. Believed dance advanced a person"s status in eyes of the gods. Volador dance: depicts decent of gods from heaven to earth (5000 years) Brazilian rainforest, yanamamo people = perform good luck dances before hunting. Portguese colonists = blend of african/catholic rituals. Found catholic saints that matched theirs and mixed them.
