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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Contemporary ritual"”.
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Mothers Making Meaning: An Exploration of Contemporary Ritual Practices Surrounding Childbirth
Many contemporary American women undergo one of the most intense identity shifts of their lives—becoming a mother—without prescribed ritual resources to navigate that transition. Lacking a common cultural script to follow, these women are inventing their own rites of passage, drawing from various …
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Founts of Knowledge: An Archaeological Ethnography of Four Sacred Wellsprings in Glamorgan, Wales
… in Wales are well-evidenced as heritage sites of contemporary ritual significance in reception of earlier traditions (Holmes, 2020; Jones, 1954). They are associated with likely early medieval provenance and contextualised by ancient and prehistoric ritual practices at similar water sources (Huws, …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
This study explores the contemporary revival of the once widely practiced Irish funerary lament tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland …