Author Question: How do scholars today feel about using the concept of delayed evolution to explain the culture of ... (Read 65 times)

ec501234 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

How do scholars today feel about using the concept of delayed evolution to explain the culture of groups such as Native Americans as being simple?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the role of musical instruments in traditional Native-American music of North America? Do instrumental ensembles such as Western classical orchestras find any counterparts in traditional Native-American music?

What will be an ideal response?

momolu · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Today scholars reject using the idea of delayed evolution to explain Native-American cultures as simple. (This is an outdated ethnocentric concept.) In spite of the fact that their music and/or language is not written down in symbolic notation, what appear to be simpler cultures turn out to be very complicated.
Thus scholars today reject this notion.

Answer to Question 2

A wide variety of drums and rattles are used to accompany traditional Native-American singing.
Instrumental ensembles such as the familiar orchestras of the Western music-culture are unknown in traditional Native-American music.