A remembrance, a social understanding of events that is represented as 'memory,' can be constructed by sharing with others sets of images that have been passed down to them through the media of memory through paintings, architecture, monuments, ritual performances, storytelling, language, music, photos, and film.
Studies offer new insight into the great monument's ritual purpose and meaning.
Khirigsuurs sustained ceremonies that legitimized the relationship between the deceased and the participants, facilitated the formation of new alliances, and emphasized integration and cohesion between mobile pastoralist communities through monument building, ritual horse slaughter, and feasting.
The first permanent Neolithic settlers appeared around 3000 BC and were responsible for the creation of the Dorset Cursus, a 10.5 km monument for ritual or ceremonial purposes.
Another 17 mounds revealed previously unseen ritual monuments about the same age as Stonehenge itself.
We show that the settlement on Leskernick Hill was most likely the result of two separate decision-making processes, one to optimise the visibility of ritual monuments and important natural landmarks, and the other to optimise the visibility of nearby tin-extraction areas.
These inhabitants reused the earlier monuments for their own ritual activities far removed from those of the royal dynasty that had erected them.
West German social history is full of narratives about German suffering at the hands of the Nazis and the allied forces.Until the late 1970s, German suffering was regularly equated with the suffering of the Jews in the Holocaust in public rituals and monuments.
It's where people here chose to place their memorial to the victims of the attacks two weeks ago, and there is still a huge crowd, gathered round the central monument in intense, almost ritual silence, taking in the thousands of pictures, candles, flowers and messages left by wellwishers.
The text on the back of the monument describes a bloodletting ritual to celebrate a Katun-ending.
Taryn Simon's An Occupation of Loss focuses an anthropologist's gaze on grief, investigating how people use rituals and monuments to grapple with loss.
