Budima dance | Global Knowledge Systems

Overview

The Budima Dance is a warrior dance performed all year round by the Wee people on a number of sombre and spiritual occasions, especially during traditional ceremonies, funeral processions, weddings, initiation ceremonies, the installation of chiefs, thanksgiving, harvest celebrations and ritual activities. The dance is performed with spears, whistles, walking sticks, knobkerries, flutes, ceremonial axes, shields, horns/trumpets, drums and rattles. The performance includes men, women and children: the men represent skilled soldiers or fighters with long spears jumping up and down while running in and out of the inner circle of dangers, flourishing their spears in mimic of war, while others blow the sets of one-note antelope horn flutes/trumpets and shout chants. Others play big and small drums. The women – adorned in beaded necklaces and bangles, with rattles on their feet – sing along...

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Community and Authority

Communities: Zambia
Languages: Not specified in UNESCO dataset
Cultural territories: Zambia
Countries: Zambia

How the System Works

Music, Performance and Oral Literature Material Culture, Design and Technology Ceremony, Spirituality and Cosmology Ways of Knowing and Knowledge Transmission

Sources and Evidence

Imported from UNESCO DataHub dataset ich001. Field-level provenance is retained in the record metadata.

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Field-Level Provenance

title: UNESCO DataHub field title_en
preferredTitle: UNESCO DataHub field title_fr
summary: UNESCO DataHub field description_en
type: UNESCO DataHub fields type_of_element_en and type_acronym
countries: UNESCO DataHub field countries, ISO codes resolved with ISO-3166 regional metadata
categories: ARED category inference from UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names and title
relationships: UNESCO concepts_primary_names, concepts_secondary_names, type fields and World Heritage links
sourceUrl: UNESCO DataHub field http_url_en
rights: UNESCO DataHub dataset metadata license and license_url

Original Source Metadata

uuidb5eec5ba-768e-4ea0-baa6-3ea9fff695c9

ich_public_ref1567

inscription_year2020

title_enBudima dance

title_frLa danse budima

type_of_element_enRepresentative List

type_acronymRL

countriesZM

http_url_enhttps://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01567

concepts_primary_namesArmed forces, Bladed weapons, Ritual dance

concepts_secondary_namesFuneral, Idiophones, Initiation rites, Nonformal education, Percussion instruments, Performing arts, Stick, Veneration of the dead, Vocal music, Wedding, Woodwind instruments

main_image_urlhttps://ich.unesco.org/img/photo/thumb/13568-LRG.jpg

main_image_caption_enChief Mweemba giving consent for the nomination of Budima dance in Chiefdom Mweemba, Sinazongwe District

main_image_copyrightThomas Mambo Mubita, Zambia, 2019

main_image_authorNot supplied

videoshttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/uLgBYwpOFCw

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Why This Record Is Credible

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Cultural Access

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Relationships

Armed forces Bladed weapons Ritual dance Funeral Idiophones Initiation rites Nonformal education Percussion instruments Performing arts Stick Veneration of the dead UNESCO representative list

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