Can traditions like these courtship dances survive in the modern world?
Beckwith: Traditional cultures are fast disappearing. About 40% of what we have recorded in the last 35 years no longer exists. It’s a shocking statistic: in a relatively short period of time, these age-old traditions have simply disappeared. The young generation wants very much to be part of the global world; they are moving into cities and are no longer interested in maintaining the ancestral values. And the elders see this as a real tragedy: they see the next generation as lacking direction and fear that they will go astray. For us, we can see the pluses and minuses of the global world and what it offers to the younger generation. But our work is focused on tradition, not the current transition, and we are determined to complete that story. We have three more books in the work, but the bigger and final study will be covering the 14 African countries in which we have not yet worked and capturing their traditional cultures. We feel a big urgency with our work. When you think of your p
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