[DANC 0806] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 29 pages long Study Guide!
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Blacks ability to develop a blended culture helped them endure the harsh circumstances of slavery. Community life: ritual, tradition, religion, artistic, celebrating ancestors, dead, funerals during the slavery era, non ritual, for contemporary (fun, daily lives, celebration of birthdays. Commemorated the important events in the lives of the people, provided a means of self-expression gave rise to arts such as mask and costume making, and connected them to god. There were dances to increase crop harvests, to initiate the young into adulthood, to celebrate marriage and birth, to help the recently deceased moved into the spirit world, and to protect against evil. Educate the young to heal the sick, and to help the new born become settled and stay healthy in the mortal world. Excitement, entertainment at local festival everyday life. Meeting point btw the human and supernatural worlds, so that people could communicate with ancestors and deities. 3 well known examples from distinct cultural groups.
