I’ve written about and performed the well-known and beloved African-American wedding ritual of ‘jumping the broom.’ Just to recap, it comes from the time when slaves, who were not allowed to marry, ...
A Closer Look At Ritual, Music And Movement. Rock art is widespread across southern Africa and includes a wide range of ...
Exhibition review of African twilight: vanishing rituals and ceremonies of the African continent in Art times (Cape Town) November 2018, pages 50-58. AFA volumes 1 and 2 are gifts from Carol Beckwith.
HAMPTON — Under a red sun, seagulls’ calls and the scent of burning sage wafted past foamy waves breaking on the warm Buckroe Beach sand just after dawn Friday. Occasionally echoed by music from a ...
HAMPTON, Va. — They faced the sunrise to the rhythm of drums and waves on a windswept beach, dozens wearing white, near the spot where the first enslaved Africans arrived at the English colony of ...
The Maasai Adumu, known as the jumping dance, is a rite of passage that signals strength and readiness within the community.
Rock art is widespread across southern Africa and includes a wide range of depictions such as human figures, animals, dots, handprints, and other painted or engraved imagery on rock surfaces. The rock ...