Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Watching the 112th Harvard-Yale Game certainly tends to make one reflect. The Game was first played in 1875, and the ritual has been repeated with reverence and care for more than a century. To understand that this is one of Harvard's more recent innovations is truly to realize the unparalleled place this University has in our national story. Unfortunately, even the extraordinary becomes mundane when experienced too often, and we begin to forget to take notice of that which has the potential to inspire. So many of us, myself included, have little sense of the majestic chain...
Harvard women's hockey co-captain Holly Leitzes used to have a ritual of practicing in a pair of red and white striped socks every...
...state's chief witness, who just happens to be the foster daughter of Wenatchee's sole sex-crimes investigator, Robert Perez--of myriad acts of child abuse, allegedly carried out not in furtive encounters but in bizarre sex parties at their church. Lurid reports describe orgies and ritual sacrifice on the altar, with Roberson and his congregation of perverts shouting "Hallelujah!" after what D.E. calls "the wild thing...
...humans sacrificed to the mountain god may prove to be a godsend to scientists. Archaeologists and anthropologists are thrilled because Juanita was found at a site that had not been looted; with all the ritual elements in place, they can reconstruct the ceremony and better understand its religious significance. Other experts are more interested in those body fluids. With support from the National Geographic Society, scientists in Arequipa, where the bodies are being kept, are preparing to make a detailed examination of Juanita's blood, her tissues and her DNA to determine, among other things, what virus and germs...
Shelemay specializes in ethnomusicology, which is the study of music in its broadest cultural and historical context. She has investigated the musical traditions of Ethiopian religious music--both Christian and Jewish--and is currently investigating the ritual music of Brooklyn's community of Syrian Jews...