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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2009
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The singing began at sunset, the dancing a little later. The women, some with their children, gathered in the large open space surrounded by the small, round huts of the village. A fire was lit and the dogs shooed away. They sang in high rhythmical voices, the clicks of their language now drowned by the clapping of their hands. Four men danced around the women and their fire. They wore rattles on their legs and as they stamped out their dance they struck percussion sticks together and answered the women's song. After a while the oldest dancer grew tired, his rheumatism hobbling his steps. There would be no shaman's trance tonight. He moved towards the fire, broke the circle, and the performance was over.
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