The Cisaro Ceremony for the Kaluli People

Throughout history, religions have diverse impacts on humanity. As a part of society, people have lots of types of relationships with each other. As the most popular ideology in ancient world, religions lead not only how people think about the physical nature. They have also affected to how people relate to each other through different rituals and rules. The hunka ceremony of Lakota is one of the rituals, which builds a special kind of relationship between some people who were in the ceremony. So how hunka affect to people who participated it? How is the ceremony similar from the sacrament of marriage and some other ceremony?

Throughout Ceremony, Silko uses numerous

Indian tribal ceremonies use formal structures of incantation, song, dance, prayer, visual symbol, and gesture to restore wholeness to the land and community. The ancient oral traditions of most indigenous cultures had the purpose to integrate the people with the cosmic forces. Ceremonies were meant to produce specific results, such as rain or healing, and language was a primary tool. Alexie is using language to resurrect the dead Indians and their culture at a powwow at the end of the world. If one understands the ancient use of language, the poem yields a holistic reading of something he wants to happen now, not later.

The Native Americans once thrived on the rich land of the Americas, and they built a long-lasting civilization with the help of nature, gods, and organized roles within the tribes. However, the thriving population plummeted after their encounter with diseases and forced labor brought upon them by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores. Although at first the conquistadores mistreatment of Native Americans seem shallow and unethical, their conquest of the Americas only partially reflects the claims of the English Black Legends..

Mission Corpus Christi de la Ysleta, the first mission in Texas, was established by Antonio de Otermín and Fray Francisco de Ayeta in 1682 and was maintained by Franciscans for christianizing the Tigua Indians. The Tigua came as refugees and captives with the former Governor of New Mexico, Antonio de Otermín on his retreat to the El Paso area after his unsuccessful attempt to recover New Mexico in the winter of 1681–82 during the Pueblo Revolt. La Misión de la Ysleta del Sur, consecrated in 1682, was built by the Tigua (Tewa, Tiwa) speaking peoples originally from Isleta and Sandia Pueblos in New Mexico. The mission was located east of present day El Paso. The pueblo and mission were dedicated to the Tiguas' patron, St. Anthony of Padua, became the nucleus of a community that has existed for 300 years—the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Texas. Today, Ysleta Mission is on the National Registry of Historic Places and part of the National Historic Trail system of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro.

The, “Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers”, is a ethnography written by anthropologist Edward Schieffelin, derived from his fieldwork with the Kaluli people of Papua New Guinea. The main focus of the book of the book is how many of the fundamental notions that are implicit in Kaluli culture are found in the Gisaro ceremony, which Schieffelin uses as, “a lens through which to view some of the fundamental issues of Kaluli life and society” (p1).

When a family decides that they would like to sponsor a Butterfly Dance, ceremonial preparations begin in order to arrange for the dance to take place. The village crier announces that a Butterfly Dance will take place in the coming weeks, and the

Dressed as birds, the young men arrive at the longhouse of a neighboring clan for a highly anticipated event, the Gisaro ceremony. They perform elaborate dances and sing at length in the clan’s territory about dead members of their host’s community and days gone by. This can go on for hours, with the purpose of eliciting an intense emotional response of nostalgia, upset, loneliness, and sorrow from their hosts. Once this has been achieved, their hosts attack them with lighted torches, burning their shoulder in anger and sorrow. The dancers are not allowed to show any emotional reaction, but they continue to dance until the hosts are done attacking the dancers. When the ceremony draws to a close, the dancers retreat back to their hut for the night and bring their hosts food in the morning. While this elaborate and violent ceremony may seem bizarre to the outside world, it is extremely important and valuable in the context of Kaluli society. Far from being a rare or inexplicable incident, the Gisaro ceremony is a highly anticipated and appreciated ritual for the Kaluli people that can only be understood in the context of their beliefs about reciprocity, food, and the afterlife.

In the novel, Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko writes about an Indian veteran and his struggle to deal with the stresses of war. Early in the novel Silko reveals some of the rituals that the Laguna Indians perform. One of these traditions is the ritual they go through after they have hunted in order to show their appreciation for the animal, in this case a deer. Some of the other Laguna traditions include the rain dances they perform during a draught and various other ceremonies. After returning from the war a traditional medicine man, Ku’oosh attempts to cure Tayo of his war-sickness but fails because his warrior ceremony is outdated. Therefore he refers him to another medicine man, Betonie, who may be more able to

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The ritual I picked is the Indian wedding ceremony the ritual object is the flower garland necklace. In a South Indian Hindu wedding, the exchange of floral garland between the bride and groom is a very important part of the ceremony. This Jai mala ritual shows the bonds between the two families and symbolizes the love and sacredness of a marital bond.

Like the Gisaro, the Kaluli people partake in many other traditional ceremonies that show the reciprocity of food, labour, and duties. In marriage there is an abundance of gift-giving and labour sharing which involves both the groom and the bride’s family. When a bride is chosen, the groom must compensate the bride’s family with brides-wealth, and both sides begin to part-take in many ceremonies. (Schieffelin, p.26) One side will bring the other many fruits and meat, and then the other side will return the favour by doing the same, creating an on-going cycle of food-giving. (Schieffelin, pg. 26) Food is continuously exchanged and prepared by both in-laws because it is one of the best methods the Kaluli use to form and maintain social relations with their in-laws and family. “Food as gift or

One of the most unforgettable cultural events I have attended was the musical, Les Miserables, which is set during the early 19th century when France was on the verge of one of their many waves of revolutions. When we arrived at the theater my friend who I was with, ran into a good friend, who also happened to be the manager at the theater that evening. He graciously sat us in seats three rows back from the stage, rather than in the seats we had purchased. The experience was remarkable as we could see every facial expression and the sweat on the brow of each of the actors. I have had the privilege of seeing Andrew Lloyd

The origin of celebrating cultural events in the world is as old as the history of human. In the previous eras, though there was not a cultural celebration at a huge level or platform, yet people promoted and disseminated their cultures in different ways. The history of Japan is extremely old as they habituated since centuries. Thus, the culture of Japan has also that centuries old touch. This cultural event Aki Masturi has its deep roots in the history of Japan.

Diwali, a festival which has been part of my life for seventeen years was suddenly gone, as soon as I left my country. I always felt I was missing a part of me. Coming from a country where we celebrate different festivals, I felt incomplete witness only few festivals, than I learned to compromise and adjust to the situation. Pretty soon I learned that I was wrong every time I was made to believe that Stonehill is not diverse and it is very exclusive bubble. I soon realized that Stonehill has a thirst for diversity and it was ready to move away from the stereotypes imposed on it. We started the process to add more diversity to Stonehill by establishing Desi Club, then organizing a successful on campus event, Diwali on 31st October 2014.