Mummers - Violence begets trust


	Mummers - Violence begets trust

kmakice

10-9-2007 10:20 PM

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mummers, rituals, village community, trust, violence, research newfoundland

kmakice says:

The description of what this has evolved into seems more like a Halloween-ified social bonding event.

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10-10-2007 2:31 AM

BartendingBear

I thought mummers were the banjo-players in the holiday parades.

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Residents of small isolated fishing villages on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland have participated in the ritual of 'mumming" for centuries. According to the tradition, small groups of villagers, or mummers, disguise their identities and go to other houses to threaten violence, whereupon the people of the houses try to guess the intruders' identities.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news111160444.html"><DIV> 
A study by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia argues that this tradition is a manner of communicating trust and trustworthiness. The mummers who threaten violence must prove themselves trustworthy by not committing a real act of violence, and the hosts of the invaded home must demonstrate trust by not responding to threats with fear or violence, said Christina Nicole Pomianek, an MU doctoral student.
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