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From the view of human-human relations; folkdance includes such as love, liberty, jealousy,
marriage, religion, fight, war and heroism.
From the view of human-nature relations; folkdance includes such as production style, work
with community, consumption, protect themselves avoid the nature, to take shelter in order to
live, tools, clothing and shopping.
These cultural articats are source of folkdance. Because of the periodical changes in a society
life, folkdances loose their first meanings. Although traditional step styles remains, first
source of the folkdances loose their functions (Kockar, 1998).
In the early centuries, folkdance was a part of all human life. During modern times, folkdance
and symbol of cultures have become mechanized in agriculture; mass media changed the
social life. For that the role of the folkdances changed for the society. Nowadays, folkdance
has become part of popular culture.
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CRHNLOLU, Fatma Gul. (2001). Cocuk Ruh Sal ve Gelisimi. Ankara: Nobel
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Exhibition
Presented at the 18th World Congress on Dance Research
Argos, Greece, 3-7 November 2004
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