For instance, clan members were generally expected to offer hospitality to clan kin from other villages; certain ritual knowledge and ceremonial privileges were also customarily passed down along clan lines.
Motivated perhaps by this knowledge, some ceremonial structures at Chaco are aligned on north-south axes, and the earthen walls at Paquimé zig and zag as though, Dr. Lekson says, they were "laid out on giant graph paper or with the old children's toy Etch A Sketch".
In most cases, the frontstage is predetermined by official arrangements that can even be emphasized by a ceremonial public presentation of the knowledge product to the commissioner.
Ah Pah will be a ceremonial rather than a residential gathering place — "a college of knowledge," Mr. Carlson said on a foggy, chilly morning, sipping tea made from wild coastal vines.
Even here, no one claims to understand the knowledge encoded in the village's khipus, which are guarded in a ceremonial house called a Kaha Wayi.
According to Garrett, the "cylinders give you access to a time when the language was being used by everybody," allowing him to reconstruct forms of speech, especially ceremonial and elevated language, which have since gone out of use, and to share that knowledge with its remaining speakers.
The Corporation comprises 227 directly elected Councillors representing the 24 municipal wards, five nominated Councillors having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration, and a Mayor whose role is mostly ceremonial.
We will conduct focus groups in year 1 of the study to understand AI/AN college students' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about smoking and its relationship to smoking and traditional or ceremonial use of tobacco.
A former RAF trainer told me that knowledge dispels fear – as the university's de facto bomb squad, mental health service, litter pickers, ceremonial mace bearers, first aid service, goldfish feeders and bulb-changers, the amount of information we have to hold in our heads means that there's no room for nerves.
