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Nanak
Indian founder of Sikhism. Born into a Hindu merchant caste, he worked as a storekeeper until a spiritual experience caused him to leave his job and family and begin a 20-year phase of travel. He eventually settled in Kartarpur, a village in Punjab, to which he attracted many disciples, and became the first Guru of the Sikhs. His doctrine stressed the unity and uniqueness of God and offered salvation through disciplined meditation on the divine name. It stipulated that meditation must be inward, and rejected all external aids such as idols, temples, mosques, scriptures, and set prayers. After his death, the stories told of his life were collected in the anthologies called the Janam-sakhis.
Baraka
U.S. playwright and black nationalist. He was born in Newark, N.J., and educated at Howard Univ. His first play, Dutchman (1964), produced off-Broadway, explored the suppressed hostility of U.S. blacks toward the dominant white culture. The Slave and The Toilet, also produced in 1964, aroused controversy. He founded the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem and in 1968 founded the Black Community Development and Defense Organization, a Black Muslim group, to affirm black culture and promote black political power. He has also written volumes of poetry and essays.
Batak
Several closely related ethnic groups of central Sumatra, Indonesia. The Batak are descendants of a powerful Proto-Malayan people who until 1825 lived in relative isolation in the highlands surrounding Lake Toba in Sumatra. They have their own written language. In their traditional religion, ancestors, plants, animals, and inanimate objects are considered to possess souls or spirits; today about a third of the 3.1 million Batak adhere to traditional beliefs, while the rest profess Christianity or Islam.
cabaret
Restaurant that serves liquor and offers light musical entertainment. The cabaret originated in France in the 1880s as a small club that presented amateur acts and satiric skits lampooning bourgeois conventions. The first German Kabarett was opened in Berlin c.1900 by Baron Ernst von Wolzogen and accompanied its musical acts with biting political satire. It became the center for underground political and literary expression and a showcase for the works of such social critics as B. Brecht and K. Weill, a decadent but fertile artistic milieu later portrayed in the musical Cabaret (1966). The English cabaret derived from concerts given in city taverns in the 18th-19th cent. and evolved into the music hall. In the U.S., the cabaret developed into the nightclub, where comedians, singers, or musicians performed. Small jazz and folk clubs and, later, comedy clubs evolved from the original cabaret.
Dayaks
In Borneo, a non-Muslim indigenous people of the S and W interior (modern Kalimantan). Dayak is a generic term that has no precise ethnic or tribal significance but distinguishes the ...
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