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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 [...]
Ritual Studies on Vimeo
We are happy to announce a new resource for the Ritual Studies Community, a group page on Vimeo, designed to share, develop, and discuss the use of video in the study of ritual and related performances. The group is accessible through the link below. Only a few students of ritual are actually creating video as [...]
Japanese Archery & Coming of Age
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 passage: