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		<title>The Other Side of the Water</title>
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The Other Side of the Water explores the 20-year journey of a traditional Haitian “rara” band in Brooklyn.  The documentary offers a unique window into the Haitian-American experience and an exploration of the intersection of music, politics, and identity in modern immigrant life.

&#8220;The Other Side of the Water&#8221; web Trailer from Jeremy Robins on Vimeo.
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		<title>Ritual, Celebration, and Festival: Announcing a new book series</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Announcing a new series: Ritual, Celebration, and Festival
Utah State University Press and Jack Santino, series editor,  announce a series of books on ritual, festival, and celebration. The topics include holidays, carnivals, and public or social events such as political demonstrations and death commemorations. The editor and publisher solicit submissions from various disciplines, including anthropology, folklore, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Archery &amp; Coming of Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hmong Shaman Purifying Subway Tunnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 1999 TV story about a Hmong shaman&#8217;s ritual for purifying a subway tunnel in Portland, Oregon. The tunnel was built under a cemetery. Producer: Tom D&#8217;Antoni Camera: Lyle Morgan Editor: Lisa Suin-Kellam.

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		<title>Ulysses Dove</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The work of dancer and choreographer Ulysses Dove exemplifies the intersection of ritual and performance arts. &#8220;Vespers&#8221; is a stunning, ritually suffused dance. View Dove&#8217;s comments on &#8220;Vespers&#8221; and then follows the dance, separated into two parts.
&#8220;Vespers&#8221; by Ulysses Dove





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		<title>Ritual and Music on Grooveshark</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Ritual on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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 A keyword search of Flickr, using &#8220;ritual&#8221; and &#8220;ceremony,&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortality (special issue)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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A special issue of the journal Mortality 14.2 (2009) on mortuary rituals in the Netherlands containing the following articles:
Going Dutch: Individualisation, secularisation and changes in death rites by Eric Venbrux;  Janneke Peelen; Marga Altena, pages 97 – 101
Death and disposal of the people&#8217;s singer: The body and bodily practices in commemorative ritual
Irene Stengs, pages 102 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toying with God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Toying with God: The World of Religious Games and Dolls Nikki Bado-Fralick and Rebecca Sachs Norris. Baylor Univ., $24.95 paper (210p) ISBN 978-1-60258-181-4
For Bado-Fralick and Sachs Norris (religious studies professors at Iowa State University and Merrimack College, respectively), religious games and dolls are charged with “the magic of childhood combined with the mystery of religion.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Middle Class: New Forms of Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalization in the new millennium. Rich in ethnographic material, the work is based on empirical case-studies of urban, cosmopolitan India (through interviews and participatory observation), research material (such as grey literature, lifestyle magazines, homepages, advertisements), [...]]]></description>
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