Ritual

vary among individuals (Practical-Management.com, 2016). Artifacts typically may exist in rituals and ceremonies, symbols and slogans, and stories (Practical-Management.com, 2016). Examples of rituals and ceremonies where artifacts may be present are new hire trainings, lunches, corporate conferences, awards and meetings. Hence, when leadership is trying to change or establish a new organizational culture rituals and ceremonies may need to be examined for artifacts that may undermine cultural…

Pinxten, 2015). It is a significant part of the African history to follow this particular celestial cycles. The Dama is a ritual dance for the Dogon Tribe of Mali, situated in West Africa. This essay will examine and analyse the movement and non-movement components within the dance. It will also analyse how this ritual dance preserves the Dogon Tribe’s culture and history. The Dama ritual dance holds a vital importance in the Dogon history as it represents the barrier between life and death.…

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit”. Mexican and Yanomamo cultures have three significant differences. The first difference is marriage and weddings, second, puberty customs and third religious rituals. In the traditional Mexican family, the father has the final say that will allow a couple to date and set a time of the wedding. He must officially “approve” their daughter to marry and be “given in marriage”. Although Mexicans are free to choose their marriage partners.…

jumping rituals and a group of men doing a Balinese monkey chant, while in Japan, we see a group of Butoh dancers. I would argue that most of this learning could be considered observational learning. These rituals seem to be specific to culture and an individual most likely grows up watching others perform them. Through observation, the individual can gain the knowledge of how to perform the desired behavior when needed. Furthermore, there seems to be a reason or a purpose behind each ritual.…

that all the members of the community draw sheets of paper to determine a “winner”. The person who pulls the card with the black dot is the “winner”. The winner of this lottery ends up being stoned to death by the entire community due to an ancient ritual that says their crops will grow better when someone gets stoned (human sacrifice). The community members do not even remember the purpose of this tradition or where it came from but yet they still participate in it every year. This story…

In Shirley Jacksons The Lottery, the author creates a story with symbolism, irony, and a ritualized tradition that masks evil, which demonstrates how people blindly follow tradition. Shirley Jacksons suggest about tradition that the lottery is part of the villager traditional life and still hold meaning to them in a way. “By withholding information until the last possible second, Jackson builds the stories suspense and creates a shocking, powerful conclusion” (Fomeshi, Behnam). Jackson uses…

through different rituals. For instance, royal family hired “professional women mourners.” Women were also responsible in preparing the funerary meals (SOURCE 160). Additionally, they performed household food rituals and rituals related to reproductive success and health care (SOURCE 168). These different rituals performed by women were not the “popular” tasks conducted in a religious environment. However, “with their knowledge and control [of]...religious procedures, [they] were ritual experts…

Roraima, in the north of Brazil. This tribe holds a curious funeral ritual that includes the ingestion of the ashes of the deceased. A classmate from my statistics class, told me about this tribe, because his ancestors were part of it. My classmate and his parents have never practice any ritual, however, he knows about the history of the tribe. The funeral rite is divided into three ceremonies: the samples mourn crying, the ritual purification of the body, (body decoration and cremation) and the…

meanings surrounding space and time differ from one culture to the next. That geographical location, historical instances, and how individuals are include or exclude highlight the varied cultural meanings that exists within space. In addition, how rituals like rites of passage and liminal space are symbolic constructions surrounding different concepts and experiences of time. Space, and the meaning cultures give to it, is not static. Every culture defines space differently. To westerners it…

We learned about stories and the historical concept behind some of the words they use. One of the words that we learned about was oli (chants) or rituals and how they are used throughout their religion. For example there warriors are used in ritual type manor when it is necessary. I believe based on what I have read and what we have discussed in class that oli can also be used to remember important information such as births, deaths, good times…