Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every eye stays fixed on the building's summit, where the king, his head adorned with feathers, his scepter a two-headed crocodile, is about to emerge from a sacred chamber with instructions from his long-dead ancestors. The crowd sees nothing of his movements, but it knows the ritual: lifted into the next world by hallucinogenic drugs, the king will take an obsidian blade or the spine of a stingray, pierce his own penis, and then draw a rope through the wound, letting the blood drip onto bits of bark paper. Then he will take the bark...
This summer, on the streets of big cities, high schoolers will be engaging in their usual vehicular mating ritual. Guys in long baggy shorts leaning against their Jeeps; girls strolling by in laughing pairs or trios; the pumping music on the Jeep stereos expressing everything that's unsaid. And what will be playing? Bell Biv DeVoe. Dr. Dre. And this album. Conscious of history, the Tonyies have made themselves a band of the here...
...Plaza at City Hall, Traditional English Ritual folk dancing...
...month and patronize the brothels that have sprung up around the hospitals. These establishments, catering specially to Arabs, feature dancing girls in gaudily carpeted and chandeliered halls. Once the "patient" chooses his girl, they move into a room with a bed decked in flowers, like the nuptial ritual in glossy Hindi films. The rate: between $100 and $1,000 a night...
Network news isn't a white male preserve--or a national ritual...