Sentences with phrase «group cultural rituals»
And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.
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Along with Indian cultural events, support groups and local medical consultations, twice a week the sweatlodge ceremonies are carried out: the ceremonial pipes are prepared, the rocks heated in the firepit, the ancient spiritual songs remembered, the purification rituals relived.
The results of that work appear in two unpublished papers: «Myth and Ritual in Modern Mexico: A Shaman and his Group»; «Myth, Ritual, and Shamanism: A Symbolic Analysis of Cultural Vitality in Mexico.»
We are descended from groups that had fine - tuned mental mechanisms and cultural rituals for binding themselves together into communities able to work together, suppress free riders, and achieve common ends.
Paula Cuevas curates a new group exhibition featuring work by women of color focusing on personal, cultural and historic rituals.
As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.
They gather information on human groups and determine what their cultural roles were in days of long ago and also find out information about a certain group's customs and rituals.