Kuu River
Kuu may refer to: * Kuu (Liberia) refers to a labor-sharing arrangement in the West African country of Liberia * Kuu (Finland) ''Kuu'' is the Finnish language, Finnish word for the Moon. In Finnish mythology it is a List of lunar deities, Moon goddess.Sheila Savill, ''Pears Encyclopaedia of Myths and Legends - Western and Northern Europe, Central and Southern Africa'', BCA ...

Communal Work
Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising. Communal work provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects such as barn raising, "bees" of various kinds (see below), log rolling, and subbotniks. Different words have been used to describe such gatherings. They are less common in today's more individualistic cultures, where there is less reliance on others than in preindustrial agricultural and hunter-gatherer societies. Major jobs such as clearing a field of timber or raising a barn needed many workers. It was often both a social and utilitarian event. Jobs like corn husking or sewing could be done as a group to allow socializing during an otherwise tedious chore. Such gatherings often included refreshments and entertainment. In more modern societies, the word ''bee'' has also been used for some time already for other social gatherings without communal work, for example for competitions such as a spelling bee. In ...
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