Sentence examples for ceremonial activities from inspiring English sources

This, of course, does not mean that the people did not visit relatives when circumstances permitted or when certain religious and ceremonial activities demanded.

The centre of the plaza is often occupied by the men's house, where the men spend the night and the greater part of the day, and which is at times the locus of ceremonial activities.

Commerce contributes significantly toward reducing cultural differences among the tribes, the more so because it is accompanied at times by ceremonial activities through which religious ideas and practices, as well as elements of social organization, are transmitted.

There were age roles and gender roles as well, but the slaves, captives of sacred war with other city-states or purchased in the marketplace, as victims, had a passive role in the ceremonial activities.

These forms of governance may include traditional institutions; diplomatic practices in relation to other indigenous peoples; internal differentiation and collective organization of, for example, clans, families, bands, or tribes; and ceremonial activities.

In fact, a substantial number of Orthodox women and men who discount or reject feminism are pursuing the increased involvement of women in ceremonial activities and educational opportunities -- out of a deep commitment to Jewish law and a desire to raise religious involvement as Jews to the highest level possible.

Beginning about 790 in the western edge of the Central Subregion, such ceremonial activity as the erection of stelae virtually came to a standstill.

Massive foreign invasions can be discounted as a factor, but non-Maya elements did appear in the west at the same time as ceremonial activity terminated.

The groups sought compensation for a number of acts, including the construction of public works, on their land which extinguished native title and impacted their ability to conduct spiritual and ceremonial activity.

Though the knights are nonsectarian, members are required to profess faith in a supreme being, and the Bible has long been the centerpiece of much of the group's ceremonial activity.

This article examines the South Indian ashmounds as monumental forms of architecture and the loci of ritual and ceremonial activity within the context of Neolithic agro-pastoral landscape production.