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First half of Theater2A at UCSB with McMahamon

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autochthonous   indigenous- plays tied to the land and region sprung from the earth anansi the spider from ghana ijapa from nigeria  
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diaspora   the movement of africans moving to america and the carribean, communities that begun because of this  
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homowo(first fruits) festival   the Ga people of Ghana homowo means jeering at hunger harvest is a tradition that also ensures a good crop for the next year to come, mandatory to have every year  
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animist   have multiple gods  
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fallibility   gods make mistakes, ask forgiveness from humans not only the other way around can be wrong  
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Ogun   Yoruba god of Iron and War and recently, innovation and technology hacked between divide of realm of human and god with his iron a  
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ashe   is life force of the yoruba people  
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engungun masking    
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anthropomorphic    
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griot   -story tellers for important people,  
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epic of son-jara(sunjata)   Mande people and the story from mali around 1240 a.d.  
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written histories   present meaning as fixed and stable, no interpretation just facts  
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storytelling   the meaning can be changeable and adaptive to the times  
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Anansi the Spider   Originally from Ghana, the Akan people  
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Nyame-   the supreme god of the Akan people  
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morality tale   lesson learned at the end  
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Characteristics of Trickster Figures   undermine the gods or other authorities introduce elements of chaos into an ordered society violate a society's sacred institutions and values  
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2 sets of characters in trickster tales   trickster and neighbors, telling you to be like the neighbors  
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Ijapa The Tortoise   From the Yoruba people in Nigeria  
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Efua Sutherland   famous for orature Mother of Ghanian Drama”  
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orature   combo of oral tradition and literature  
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mboguo   disruption of the story/improvisation  
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Femi Osofisan    
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anansem   anansi + sem(story/issue/problem)  
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anasegoro-   anansi+ gro(theatre/musical)  
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Dilemma Tales   no clear cut lesson  
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Metatheatre   no fourth wall  
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Orunmila(Ifa)   Yoruba Orisha(God) cowrie shells God of oracles an pleads on behalf of mankind  
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Olodumare   Supreme God) of Yoruba  
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Esu (Eshu)   Yoruba Orisha (god) God of paradox “messenger” and “trickster” god  
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fa( Orunmila) Divination Processions   supplicant goes to Ifa priest, tells problem, priest casts Kola shells, supplicant chooses the best phrase, priest tells him what to do, active role for supplicant  
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total theatre   multi media production with dialogue, music, song, dance, color and spectacle  
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First Generation   1960's directly following independence Ex. Wole Soyinka “The Strong Breed” Nigerian  
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Second Generation   1970's followed a Marxist agenda but targeted the educated class Ex. Femi Osofisan “Once Upon Four Robbers” NIgeria  
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Scramble for Africa-   ivided Africa among the European colonies after slave trade ended  
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Civil War   Biafran War 1967-1970: in Nigeria-fight for political power between different groups and regimes  
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SAP's   Structural Adjustment Programs many restrictions and they require money to be invested in things like economy, not education  
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Postcolonialism   attitude toward colonialism doesn't mean “after colonialism” but rather the feeling of resentment  
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afro-pessimism   the tendency to associate Africa only with ethnic conflict, war and disease  
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Sango   Yoruba God of Lightning god-king, only yoruba god to have formerly been a human  
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Wole Soyinka   Series of ritual-centered plays interested in rituals gone awry  
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New Year Ritual   a way to rid the village of all its sins and wrongdoings and bad things that happen  
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Ritual-   Presentational, presents a reality (process in the now)  
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Drama   Representational- re-presents a reality(already happened)  
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Phases of Ritual   Victor Turner 1-preliminal 2-liminal 3-postliminal  
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Preliminal   (separation)- Creation of Sacred Space  
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Liminal   transition)- Anti Structure  
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Postliminal   (incorporation)- Re-integration in society  
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fourth stage   compared to the liminal /anti structure stage fourth stage is rituals  
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Chthonic realm   abyss dividing gods from mortals  
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tragedy   anguish of the severance humans feel being separated from gods  
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Scapegoat   catalogues sins of people from old year from the hebrew old testament  
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obatala   yoruba god of creation has patience, was imprisoned by Sango  
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