Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing African songs over the French radio. What they sang went over so well that Fodeba assembled a successful dance group recruited from fellow Africans in Paris. Then the trio took off on a "25,000-mile" talent hunt for authentic West African dancers, organized contests, persuaded ritual dancers that performing publicly outside Africa would not profane secret rites. To keep the flavor authentic, Fodeba insisted that costumes be of native materials, even brought along a highly convincing fire eater...
Psyche-Semantic. Slinking away in disgrace, Henderson and Romilayu next camp with an ugly-mannered tribe called the Wariri. Here Henderson redeems himself by lifting a previously unbudgeable wooden idol during a riotous rainmaking ritual. He is acclaimed as Sungo, the Rain King, blushingly dons the transparent green silk bloomers of his office and becomes a friend and confidant of Dahfu, the Wariri's chief...
...some educators these are frightening words. Traditionally, the freshman gets his basic training in a battery of survey courses: he is whisked through the centuries, fed a few Great Ideas, forced to memorize a multitude of facts. This peculiar ritual ends with a process of mental regurgitation, commonly known as "the final." No matter what name it hides under, the survey course is supposed to provide a rock-like foundation for greater things...
...been taking his gun on the warpath against the peyote ban ever since he was elected international president of the Native American Church four years ago. He has been aided in his campaign by the testimony of anthropologists, including the late Franz Boas, that the peyote ritual was truly religious, and by the failure of various federal attempts to classify peyote as a narcotic. (Though it may produce a hangover, it is not habit-forming and no more skull-popping than firewater...
Milk punch before breakfast .. . quasi-primitive bopping ... six inches of snow ... and Sunday "Thank-God-They're-Gone" parties constitute the three-day euphoria of the traditional Indian ritual, the Dartmouth Winter Carnival...