Explain the aspect of taino community life and their leisure and recreational activities, from the information below.
Explain the aspect of taino community life and their leisure and recreational activities, from the information below.
The Arawaks must have led very happy lives before he coming of the Spaniards. Life was easy, their liet ample and varied and they were kindly and more humane than other Amerindians. Columbus noted that they were very honest and stole nothing from the Spaniards. Sympathy, generosity and butting others before themselves were other virtues hoted by Columbus.
The Arawaks had ample leisure time which they bccupied with singing and dancing, called areytas.
Women and men usually danced separately but sometimes both sexes danced together. On these becasions the pleasure of drinking was added.
They also had a ball game, known as batos, which was played on a marked field (batey) with two teams trying to hit the ball with any part of the body into their opponent's goal line, a game somewhere between volleyball and football.
The most well known of the Arawaks' pleasures was that of smoking. The Arawaks called the tobacco plant coliba, and tabaco referred to the bipe in which the leaves were smoked. The Arawaks liked tobacco for peace and contentment, nd for helping them to meditate. They made gars, chewed tobacco and smoked it in pipes,
which was the method they enjoyed mort of all.
To summarise, the Arawaks were a primitive people in that they could hot read and write. The knew little about metalworking (apart from gold for decoration) and nothing about the whed or the domestication of animals (apart from their bark less dogs). On the other hand they had some marks of a more complex civilisation, such as their religion, their ball game and other leisure activities, their use of herbs for medicine and pleasure, their cooking and seasoning of food, their culfivation of the conucos, their large, strong canoes and their highly polished artefacts.
The Arawaks made a considerable contribution to the outside world, particularly by the crops they grew. Maize and cassava have become the staple food of many people in Africa. Next in importance come groundnuts, sweet potatoes and pincapples.
Arawak dishes are still served, mostly in the West Indies, but they also appear in world-wide cookery books, for example pepperpot soup and cassareep.
Barbecuing meat is a very famous contribution from the Arawaks. The use of tobacco is now also world-wide.
Many Arawak words have come into English.
The names of some vegetables are so common that their Arawak derivation is forgotten: maize, potato. cassava and tobacco are four examples. Other words commonly used are hammock, hurricane, barbecue, buccaneer and canoe.
Taino people were indigenous people who lived in the Caribbean region when the Europeans made contact with the New World in the late 15th century. The Taino culture is still active as the Taino descendants and revivalist communities try to conserve the Taino culture and way of life. Here is an effort to explain the Taino community life, leisure, and recreational activities with the help of the given passage.
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