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15. Goma Dancers from Siyu, Pate Island Compete

15. Goma Dancers from Siyu, Pate Island Compete

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Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy

01-01-1995

Members of the goma group from Siyu sing meditatively as they perform the slow movements that characterize this dance. The uniformity with which they carry out the subtle gestures is one of the criter..

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Members of the goma group from Siyu sing meditatively as they perform the slow movements that characterize this dance. The uniformity with which they carry out the subtle gestures is one of the criteria with which the crowd (who act as judges) determine the winning group.

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Swahili Expressive Arts Collection (Illinois Wesleyan University)

Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois Wesleyan University, rgearhar@iwu.edu

Anthropology
Social and Behavioral Sciences

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