Set of actions performed according to an established sequence, mainly for their symbolic value

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Limestone jackal-headed canopic jar, used to house removed stomach, liver, lungs and intestines, each organ assigned to a different jar, from a mummified Egyptian body. This jar represents Duamutef, one of the four sons of Horus, and is the guardian of the stomach

Plaster cast, man of the Arawa tribe showing Maori tattooing

Limestone human headed canopic jar

A Kandyan shaman in full costume. Process print.

A Japanese doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Halftone after a photograph by Messrs. Kajima & Suwo.

A Shuar shrunken head (tsantsa) from Ecuador with a stitched mouth and feather headdress.

Burial of the dead in the graveyard of a parish church. Etching by James Taylor.

Peruvian mummified male, c.1200-1400

Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas.

The archetypal actions of ritual : a theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.

Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

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Ceremonial Behavior

Images from the collections

Images about Ceremonial Behavior

Works from the collections

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas.

The archetypal actions of ritual : a theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.

Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895

Ceremonial Behavior

Images from the collections

Images about Ceremonial Behavior

Works from the collections

Ritual healing : magic, ritual and medical therapy from antiquity until the early modern period / edited by Ildikó Csepregi, Charles Burnett.

Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas.

The archetypal actions of ritual : a theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.

Shaman's mask with human features and a removable bird's beak. Haida people, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

Human skull inscribed with prayers for the deceased. Collected by Robert Baden Powell's Asante (Ghana) expedition 1895

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