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It is widely acknowledged that music is of great value for people
with learning difficulties. It can be used as a catalyst to help
those with special needs acquire and improve basic skills and
thereby to communicate better. With clear aims and easy-to-follow
instructions, Pied Piper describes 78 enjoyable music activities
for groups of children or adults who may have learning
difficulties. The emphasis is on using music, rather than learning
songs or rhythms, so group members do not need any special skills
to be able to participate. Full details are given about any
equipment required for the games, as well as suggestions for
variations or modifications. The authors are experienced music
therapists and have used these activities on numerous occasions.
Designed to encourage people to develop their own ideas and musical
activities, this collection will be a source of inspiration and
practical advice for anyone working with people with a range of
special needs including carers and group leaders.
The stories collected in "The Dawn of the World" were related by
the Miwok elders "after the first rains of the winter season,
usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim
light of a flickering fire. They constitute the religious history
of the tribe, and from time immemorial have been handed down by
word of mouth," writes C. Hart Merriam. Included are creation myths
and accounts of the First People, beings who antedated humans, as
well as tales about animals, death and ghosts, witches and giants,
and natural phenomena.
From the Introduction by Lowell J. Bean:An apparent dichotomy
exists in scientific circles concerning the role of religion and
belief systems and a similar dichotomy exists among anthropological
theorists. Two assumptions seem to prevail: ritual and world view
are more ecologically nonadaptive than adaptive; or ritual and
world view are more ecologically adaptive than they are
nonadaptive. To examine the relevancy of the opposing theoretical
views I will develop hypotheses concerning a particular culture,
the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, which will be used as
a test case. I will present two sets of hypotheses which logically
follow from each of the assumptions. From the first assumption I
suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by ritual
actions which are not only wasteful of productive goods but
decrease the production of goods; they take people away from
productive activities because of ritual obligations: and . from the
second I suggest that the economic needs of society are impeded by
normative and existential postulates (for definition see page 16o)
which indicate that valuable resources are outside the realm of the
economic order; these postulates are disruptive to the production
of goods by encouraging people to behave in such a way that they
are taken away from productive activity. From this latter viewpoint
two other hypotheses follow: the ecoiwmic needs of society are
facilitated by ritual action which conserves and increases the
production of goods and fosters productive activity by directing
personnel toward producing activities; and the economic needs of
society are facilitated by normative and existential postulates
which foster the use of valuable economic resources and increase
the productive process by directing behavior which involves people
in productive activities. The validity of the hypotheses will be
tested by asking specific questions related to the hypotheses. The
questions are:Were goods wasted because of ritual action? Did
ritual action take people away from productive activities or did it
direct people to produce more goods? Were valuable resources placed
outside the realm of economic order by existential postulates? Did
normative postulates disrupt the production of goods by rewarding
behavior which took people away from productive activity? Or did it
reward behavior which fostered the production of goods? Additional
questions are: Did ritual and world view encourage the full and
rational use of the Cahuilla environment? Did ritual and world view
aid in adjusting man-land ratios? Did ritual and world view support
a social structure and organization which was adaptive to an
environmental base? Did ritual and world view support institutions
that were adaptive, such as law, property concepts, warfare, and
games? Did ritual and world view have regulatory functions? Did
ritual and world view stimulate or facilitate the distribution of
economic goods from one part of the system to another? Did ritual
and world view limit the frequency and extent of conflict over
valuable resources?
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