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If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, We dance. In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

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Curt Sachs
Age: 77 †
Born: 1881
Born: June 29
Died: 1959
Died: February 5
Art Historian
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Ethnomusicologist
Music Theorist
Musicologist
University Teacher
Berlin
Germany
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Wedding
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Bushmen
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Dancing
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Initiation
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Puberty

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