Two limericks about this research study — “Revealing the Ritually Concealed: Custodians, Conservators, and the Concealed Shoe” [by Ceri Houlbrook and Rebecca Shawcross, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, vol. 14, no. 2, 2018] grace the November 2024 issue of mini-AIR, our free monthly little e-newsletter of stuff that’s too tiny to […]
This video shows courtship ritual movements of several kinds of animals, as performed by human dancers. The animals are listed near the end of the video. The video is an ad for a particular brand of Japanese condoms. (Thanks to La Boite Verte for bringing this to our attention.)
This video was pointed out to us by a British person as possibly being in some sense typical of modern British wedding rituals. It documents a recent wedding held on the Isle of Bute. This week’s Anthropology Exercise of the Week is to write a limerick (in traditional Limerick form) explaining some key ritual element that […]
One of our readers, a scientist who spent the first half of his life in Japan, tells of a ritual that seems to be not terribly well known or studied. He writes: This is a strange tradition in some part of Japan which I was not aware of until today, when I saw a report in Yomiuri […]