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The Day of the Dead in Mexico
Photos by Meike Heessels. Radboud University Nijmegen
Ritualizing Cremation in the Netherlands
Photos by Meike Heessels Radboud University Nijmegen
New All Souls Celebrations in the Netherlands
New All Souls Celebrations in the Netherlands are the result of collaborations between artists and cemeteries to offer new rituals of remembering the dead. The visitors are mostly Dutch and religiously unaffiliated. However, in bigger cities there are many visitors with multicultural backgrounds. Originally initiated by one artist in 2005, these celebrations have spread around [...]
Affecting Performance Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women’s Initiation
Corinne A. Kratz’s Affecting Performance has been reissued, making available a major work in performance studies, linguistic anthropology, ritual and symbolic studies, and African studies. A classic study widely used in the classroom, the book examines how ceremonial performance works and the contradictory dynamics of gender and ethnicity in Okiek initiation ceremonies in Kenya. Combining [...]
Ritual Irony?
In these two videos Kate MacGarry has followed Marcus Coates as he “shamanically” embodies animals and performs bird calls. Is he serious? Ironic? Merely playing? Both? Is this bad ritual? Bad theater? Good ritual? Good theatre? Installation art? And, aside from the genre question, do such events really matter to anyone other than the artists/shaman? [...]