Ceremony

A ceremony is an activity, infused with ritual significance, performed on a special occasion.

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Traditionally, a ceremony may mark a rite of passage in a personal human career, marking the significance of (for example):

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• birth
• initiation
• puberty
• social adulthood
• graduation
• marriage
• death
• burial

Rite of passage: A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social or sexual status. The term was popularised by the French ethnographer Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957), in the early part of the twentieth century. Further theories were developed in the 1960s by Mary Douglas and Victor Turner....

Career: A career is traditionally seen as a course of successive situations that make up a person's worklife. One can have a sporting career or a musical career, but most frequently "career" in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions by which one earned one's money. It tended to look onl...

Ceremony related Images and Photos (experimental)

Ceremony, The	Ceremony 1963	Religious Ceremony	The Wedding Ceremony
Tea Ceremony in Blue and White III	Melasti Ceremony on Kuta Beach Celebrating Balinese New Year	Worship Ceremony at Night by Ganges River Varanasi India	The Closing Ceremony of the Paris Exposition of 1855
An Elizabethan Maundy Ceremony circa 1560	The Ceremony for the Return of Napoleon's Ashes in 1840	The Initiation Ceremony of a New Medicine Man of the Chippewa People	The Golden Spike Ceremony 10th May 1869