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. ...

• Word Count: 2054
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1349
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 1457
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 2007
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1289
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In our culture it has been enforced on us my media conditioning, for example televised or photographed celebrities at awards ceremonies, or the instantly recognizable song "Lady In Red" by Chris De Burgh. ...

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Where once, the people lived within a strong community governed by strict and just laws, and culture was sustained through stories of the past and ceremonies; the audience now sees only fragments of cultural links and bonds. ...

• Word Count: 1690
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Pattern thinking is Aboriginal thinking. There is no big boss. Patterns are about belonging" (Stockton, 1995) 'Pattern thinking is 'Aboriginal way'; triangle thinking is 'Western way'. Patterns are about belonging. Nothing is separate from anything else. The land is not separate ...

• Word Count: 2069
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate