It's nearly winter in South Africa, which means the opening of winter initiation schools is approaching. These rituals mark a ...

African masks are an important part of the continent's cultural heritage, representing different tribes and traditions ...

After the beachside prayer ceremony, runners will continue on through local mountain and desert tribal areas, ending at Sycuan on June 16, where an awards ceremony for participants will be held ...

Initiation ceremonies are not only rampant in Malawi but in several African countries where this rite of passage into adulthood follows a bush retreat of some weeks and is widely seen as a test of ...

Anthropologists have studied with fascination the coming-of-age ceremonies of tribes and communities ... The death of a South African teenager during initiation rituals - the ninth such fatality this ...

The TV presenter and activist Bruce Parry with Chief Keluie, the Mucubal village leader, in his new series, ‘Tribe with Bruce ... part in a lengthy ayahuasca ceremony in a bid to connect with ...

But plaintiffs argued the Sanskrit invocations of Hindu deities and an initiation puja, called a “ceremony of gratitude” by instructors, felt distinctly religious. “Everybody that I talked ...

There was a special welcoming meeting in the afternoon, with an Indigeous welcome by the Chief of the Serpent River First Nations, Wilma-Lee Johnston, performing a smudge, followed by the grand master ...

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