Cherokee Dance and Drama

$19.95

ISBN: 9780806125800
Dewey: 793.3108
LCC Number: E99.C5 S66
Author: Frank G Speck Will West Long Leonard Broom
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Pages: 138
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Description

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.

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Weight 0.44 lbs
Dimensions 8.27 × 5.45 × 0.49 in
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