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 **Main reading:** Blaser and Cadena (2018); Strathern (2018)
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 This is a passage from a paper by Marie Reay (1959), cited by Marilyn Strathern (2018):
-Dancing with spears occurs in the climactic rites of the Pig Ceremonial and also in the harvest festival called wubalt, a ritual presentation of nuts and other foodstuffs by one clan to another. All the spear dances are essentially the same. The one I shall describe here takes place as part of the geru bugu ceremony held in honour of the Guardian of Pigs towards the end of the Pig Ceremonial.
+"Dancing with spears occurs in the climactic rites of the Pig Ceremonial and also in the harvest festival called wubalt, a ritual presentation of nuts and other foodstuffs by one clan to another. All the spear dances are essentially the same. The one I shall describe here takes place as part of the geru bugu ceremony held in honour of the Guardian of Pigs towards the end of the Pig Ceremonial.
-About forty men dance towards the ceremonial ground. They wear headdresses of red and black bird-of-paradise plumes, and they twirl their spears horizontally above their shoulders, ready to strike. They advance with stylized movements, kicking their legs up behind them. Suddenly they squat on their haunches and stay motionless for a few moments before advancing again. They repeat this action many times, dashing forward with mincing steps, retreating to squat motionless, then again moving forward. They dance round the house of the Red Spirit a dozen times. The dance ends when other men, who have been following the spearsmen and performing symbolic actions in honour of the Red Spirit, hurl pieces of pork to the crowd.
+"About forty men dance towards the ceremonial ground. They wear headdresses of red and black bird-of-paradise plumes, and they twirl their spears horizontally above their shoulders, ready to strike. They advance with stylized movements, kicking their legs up behind them. Suddenly they squat on their haunches and stay motionless for a few moments before advancing again. They repeat this action many times, dashing forward with mincing steps, retreating to squat motionless, then again moving forward. They dance round the house of the Red Spirit a dozen times. The dance ends when other men, who have been following the spearsmen and performing symbolic actions in honour of the Red Spirit, hurl pieces of pork to the crowd.
-The spear dance dramatizes readiness for conflict rather than conflict itself. The spearsmen’s antagonists, the traditional enemies of the clan, are not present ; nor are they impersonated in the dance. The rite acts out the strength of the clan, which is symbolized by going to war. It expresses the unity of the clan and the value placed on warfare. (Reay 1959, 291)
+"The spear dance dramatizes readiness for conflict rather than conflict itself. The spearsmen’s antagonists, the traditional enemies of the clan, are not present ; nor are they impersonated in the dance. The rite acts out the strength of the clan, which is symbolized by going to war. It expresses the unity of the clan and the value placed on warfare." (Reay 1959, 291)
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