The line "Through layers of white plaster skin- (2) refers to one of the customary practices of the Japanese wedding ceremony. ... Finally ready for her ritual, the bride is "swept ashore in her glass bottle- (5) and plunged into decorous ceremony. ... Much like the weddings of our western culture, much of the ceremony is scripted and guided by custom. ... At last the ceremony is coming to a close and the bride "kneels at the bend of a fresh memory- (15), curtseying respectfully to her audience of family and friends. ... Closely following her exit from the ceremony is her departure fro...

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Ceremonies connect the present tribes with their spirit ancestors and their creation in the dreaming. ... These ceremonies bring life to the dreaming stories and they believe that it enables the world to flow and not fail. ... They are taught this through ceremonies, rituals, dance, song, painting and storytelling. ... They have many ceremonies to communicate with these ancestors. ... This ceremony requires blood, and men to abstain from sexual acts with their wives. ...

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The Appalachian's ritual for death helps them deal with death because their ceremony is a way of them saying goodbye to their loved one. ... In Japan there is a very special ceremony that takes place for boys and girls, it is called Adult's Day. ... After this ceremony takes place, they are considered to have both more responsibilities and more privileges. ...

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One example of these rituals is the ceremonies of the shrine room. ... He or she then conducts a brief ceremony of ritual cleansing. ... When people become sick they are sent there to have evil sprits ritually caste out with latipsoh ceremonies. Many people who go to the latipsoh to be healed actually die during the curing ceremonies. ... When the medicine man thinks the patient is ready, the curing ceremony takes place. ...

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After the ceremony the bride and groom exit the church while the guests shower them with rice and almond candies, "koufeta"", for good luck. ... The wedding ceremony starts with the ritual of worshipping the ancestors. ... The ancestor worship and tea serving ceremonies are performed again. When this ceremony is finished, the couple is considered married by traditional Chinese customs. ... When the prayer ceremonies are over the weeping of the mourners gets louder and the coffin is nailed shut. ...

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The Quinceniera is the right of passage ceremony for Catholic Spanish females. ... At the mere age of 15, the chief's daughter is ready to be married off and the chief decides to "show" her off by having a ceremony, and because of this the clan decided that this was the cross over age to womanhood. ... After the ceremony is over, the after party is held. ... The dress worn in the ceremony is then removed and is kept by the newly found woman as a reminder of her entrance of maturity. ... Even though there are far more ceremonies and traditions about us, the Mbuti's Elima and the ...

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Aboriginal culture also has renewal ceremonies that involve song, dance and art; the ceremony regenerates the aboriginal communities. It also regenerates the celebration of the renewal of life and the changing of seasons; the ceremonies have a spiritual significance, in honoring the land and the people of the land celebrating the ancestors in "The Dreamtime". ...

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Ancestral objects and articles are not "art," but are embodied by the breath of life from the person who utilized the object or article in the performance of a dance or ceremony. ... Each Indigenous Native must decide what information about their history, ceremonies, and cultural sites and properties should be shared for their protection. ... However, the battle will continue here and abroad as the French court indicated, AIRFA was written with "no provisions banning the sale outside the United States of objects used in religious ceremonies and susceptible to be applicable in France" and inte...

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After reading this book by Kuipers I felt it deserved a review that would make at least honest attempt to give proper credit for the wonderful insights that the author makes in this book. This past semester I have been obligated to read books on linguistics and culture, and this is the extent of my...

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While life had completely changed for them, Native Americans still tried to keep their culture alive in the missions by continuing their traditional healing and funeral ceremonies. ... Many of these beliefs and activities such as these have been brought into American society by Native Americans through different programs and ceremonies, such as the Traditional Native American Farmers' Association who still use traditional agricultural methods in hope to revive and spread those ways ("Traditional Farmers' Association"). ...

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The early Aboriginal people in Saskatchewan were more spiritual, and they lived in perfect harmony with the nature. The circle in aboriginal life was a meaningful teaching stool. The aboriginal regarded the circle as the main symbol for understanding life's mysteries. They have observed that all liv...

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The ceremony surrounding the attack on the other settlement and the other ceremonies performed throughout the following day indicate that the ritual of canabalism isn't just some random act of violence, or even a daily ritual. ...

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Iroquois Culture In order to fully understand and appreciate a culture different from one's own, one must first have a grasp on ethnocentrism and how it can change thoughts and viewpoints. Ethnocentrism is a term used when someone is judging a culture's ethics or way of life based upon his or h...

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia are the oldest living cultural history in the world, they go back at least 50-65,000 years- indigenous groups used to and still do use dance as a way of celebrating special ceremonies, expressing their feelings and beliefs towards such as religion, stories and ancestral heroes. ...

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As soon as man breaks out of his mothers womb and emerges from the ruins of his sweet infantile world he sees around him a complex world with rich dialects, resplendent art, diverse ideas and beliefs and fascinating rituals and ceremonies. ...

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The practice may take various forms, such as a religious healing ceremony, a special experience or professionally defined interaction between the healer and the client. ... Instead, the practices are usually recognized as religious ceremonies or healing exercises related to supernatural or natural powers. ... For example, African people tend to represent in dancing, singing, ceremonies and rituals what Western people...

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In the United States there are many people who know how to speak different languages because they emigrated from different countries. Language is the basis of any culture, so if you take away the language you take away the culture. It is this loss of language that has taken today's generations from their traditions and culture. Culture is the belief or behavior of a particular society and the way of life of its people. In addition, culture also is the training, development, refinement of mind, tastes, manners, and all other products of human work and thought. ...

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Barley charts a relationship between the fertility of the land, the millet cycle (on which the Dowayos are very dependent) and the ceremony of circumcision that lies right at the heart of the Dowayo's life. ... But it becomes increasingly obvious that all the rituals and ceremonies return again and again to this central ritual. ...

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American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. The two concepts are so intertwined that it is hard to study one without the other- (McGoldrick, et al. 1982). The view of culture, while not specifically related to a group's ethnicity or race, is the same. A family is a small cultural group with its own set of beliefs, values, mores, and rules. Ethnicity remains a major form of group identification and a major determinant of these family patterns and belief systems. ...

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When he starts over once again, he gets it right with phases drawn from the opening of a Native divining ceremony: ""Higayv:lige:i . . .Tsane:hlanv:hi . . .Hade:loho:sgi . . ."". (15) These Cherokee syllabics, invite people to "listen up". ...

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Anthropology studies could be said to be as old as religious studies. In social and cultural anthropology, religion is considered universal. The presence of religious systems is expressed through a set of rules, precepts, and prohibitions that have to do with the family organization, the rules of ma...

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In this ethnographic work of Annette Weiner, we discover the social and economical differences of this distinguished group of people. The trobrianders lived their lives in a much different sense. There life is centered on their Martilineage, and the philosophy of family is greatly sacred. The tradit...

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The concepts of history and literature can easily become intertwined in ambiguous definitions; however, both historical and literary texts are needed in order to fully understand a time period in the past. History can be seen as an objective explanation of events that have occurred, while litera...

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Throughout history, authors use cloth as a medium to convey the cultural themes of the ancient and the present world regarding how clothing is a representation of the respect, prestige, or attention an individual receives. In addition to this, authors place a significant degree of importance on clot...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primitive persons to have had, the analogies they can provide us with the people of the past are very inaccurate. These comparisons are so unrivaled due to factors such as time and the wrong sense of view many people have on them. ...

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