Word: tribalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelley Rogers' dark eyes and impish beauty could trigger instant puberty for any twelve-year-old boy in her class. Rogers is one of four young actresses who alternate roles as students and teachers in a Yonkers, N.Y., parochial school back in the '60s. All the tribal rites reprised here have been done before, and better, and too often-at alumnae gabfests, if not onstage-for Playwright Casey Kurtti to pretend to freshness. Alas, freshness-make that impudence-is all School Girls has going for it. The play's antireligious broadsides are clumsy enough to make...
...except that it is clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny. The stage set itself is something of an anachronism with its Sheraton table, Hepplewhite chairs and dour ancestral portraits. The time span is from the Depression to the present. The dining room used to be the site of unalterable tribal rites-Thanksgiving, Christmas, family fiscal confabulations. Now people eat in the kitchen...
...what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost a total of $18.3 million...
...collection, as it now stands, is strong in New Guinea and Melanesian art. And its African material, particularly in the areas of Senufo, Dan and Dogon tribal art, is superb. But the coverage of Australian and (more surprisingly) Northwest American Indian art is sketchy. This may be because the roots of Rockefeller's own taste were set in the culture of European modernism-in the admiration for the primitive that formed the experimental work of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Brancusi...
...would find, however, those who disagree with his contention. The entire system of immigration is at odds with the tribal idea of self, according to Louis Dupree '49, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who has done field work in Afrghanistan. A friend of Qul, Dupree has set out to see that he and his tribe do get to Alaska. The immigration authorities look at individuals as individuals and deals with them as such, Dupree says. The individual in a tribal society considers himself part of this group; this, Dupree says, has led to mistakes on the part of immigration...