Ritual dances

Rites of passage can be a large part of many cultures and vary all over the world. The rituals followed mark important times in an individual’s life in various different ways which they transcend from one status to another. The first culture’s ritual I’ve chosen to study is African tribal coming of age, being as rites of passage are extremely critical to them. Each rite of passage helps by placing someone in their title in the community and setting their social and or spiritual position. The…

textbook, a ritual is a set of numerous, figurative activities that happens in a secure order and is happened occasionally. Unusual ethnic ceremonies, possibly concerning animal or human loss, may arise to attention when thinking of rituals, but in truth many existing buyer activities is ceremonial. Every sport maintains different kinds of rituals. Events of rituals in every sport will usually be accepted out around pre-game, game-play, and post-game ceremonies. Although there are particular…

The “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” is a sardonic piece by Horace Miner that exposes Western civilization’s misconceptions of the behaviour and way of life of other cultures. He demonstrates how an etic or an outsider perspective can influence the perspective on the undetected culture. Miner introduces the Nacirema tribe who are to be perceived as an uncivilized culture with barbaric rituals. He highlights a few of the Nacirema body rituals which include the focus on the appearance and health…

The ritual event that I have chosen is Jewish Circumcision known as brit milah. In Hebrew the word brit means covenant and in Yiddish form it is known as bris. I will go over the origins, laws and details of the ritual along with the person who performs the ceremony. I will also go over the location and the time in which the ritual takes place as well for the reasons this ritual is performed and what the significance of the ritual is. The brit milah is a life-cycle event that takes place right…

husband’s pyre. What’s even more so, is the idea that a contemporary, democratic America could participate in an activity like the latter. In Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, she exaggerates with the concept of how America could divulge in a sacrificial ritual, where its purpose has long since been forgotten. While her whole story is filled with symbolism, irony, and other literary device, perhaps one of the most key elements in explaining the…

This book’s basic claim of the ability to sort rituals and rites of passage into 3 categories which cross cultures is well supported by many examples. His work demonstrates important human universalities that remains useful in anthropology. Van Gennep thoroughly explains how the rites of passage are universally…

Swimming with the Sharks Weddings are one of the most important events in a person’s life. It is the day one will finally marry the person they truly love and spend the rest of their life with them, yet this thought alone sometimes is not enough to satisfy the excitement of the night, and people wish to make their weddings and honeymoons more interesting than the rest. Judy and Jason Lau, from Canada, decided on swimming with sharks for their honeymoon, but this unusual choice was not just for…

Sikhism is one of the more modern religions when compared to other world religions, and is full of rituals that can be classified as rites of passage. The rite of passage I witnessed in my ethnic group is known as Amrit Sanchar. Amrit Sanchar is an optional ceremony that can be undertaken by Sikhs that initiates them into the rank of Khalsa. Anyone that goes through this sacred ceremony is referred to as an Amritdhari. Amritdharis’s are baptized and are committed to the panth, which is another…

Comparing/ Contrasting Death in Different Cultures Death, is a part of life. It is something terrible everyone will face in life. The Asian and The Lakota Tribe have many similarities about how the handle death, they also have differences in the way they approach within their culture. There are many cultures in the world that have differences and similarities about death. Different cultures celebrate death differently. One main difference between the two cultures is, In Asia after a person…

“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” by Horace Miner is primarily for readers who do not know the “unusual aspects” of the Nacirema tribe (316). Miner does a very good job of showing the readers the “fundamental belief underlying the whole system” that “the human body is ugly and that its natural tendency is to debility and disease” (317). We learn throughout this ethnography that the Nacirema go through great measures to put magic into their body from the medicine men picking out ingredients for…