Audio-Visual

Listed in the Audio-Visual archives are resources such as videos, photos, music, and audio (lectures, narratives, interviews, and radio shows). We invite viewers to send us links to other such resources that might be useful to ritual studies students, teachers, and scholars.

Ritualization with and by Animals

10 March 2010
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Japanese Archery & Coming of Age

12 February 2010

On Seijin-no-Hi (Coming of Age Day) in early January in Japan, an archery ritual known as Momote Shiki is held at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo for all those turning 20 for that year. 10 Archers at a time shoot two arrows at a central target.

And another version of the same rite of [...]

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Hmong Shaman Purifying Subway Tunnel

12 February 2010

A 1999 TV story about a Hmong shaman’s ritual for purifying a subway tunnel in Portland, Oregon. The tunnel was built under a cemetery. Producer: Tom D’Antoni Camera: Lyle Morgan Editor: Lisa Suin-Kellam.

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Ulysses Dove

12 February 2010

The work of dancer and choreographer Ulysses Dove exemplifies the intersection of ritual and performance arts. “Vespers” is a stunning, ritually suffused dance. View Dove’s comments on “Vespers” and then follows the dance, separated into two parts.
“Vespers” by Ulysses Dove

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Ritual and Music on Grooveshark

12 February 2010

Grooveshark is an efficient tool for finding and embedding music in a website. Here, the webmasters created a widget of music with a ritual dimension.

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Ritual on Flickr

12 February 2010

A keyword search of Flickr, using “ritual” and “ceremony,” locates the images below. Dragging your cursor across a photo will show you viewing options, such as how to turn off and on written information about the image. We invite viewers to send us links to other photos or sites, including your own, that might be useful [...]

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Ritual Images

20 March 2009

The images in texts and textbooks devoted to ritual are often of poor quality and limited due to cost. Since much ritual is highly visual, it makes sense that students of ritual tend to photographing rites. Photographing ritual opens up methodological and theoretical questions, but also technical and aesthetic ones. We offer here two different examples of [...]

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