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    Baseball Ritual

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    "Baseball Magic" The use of ritual magic is to ensure success over activities in which uncertainty and limited control exist. In baseball‚ players tend to have daily rituals which are seen as superstitious in order to ensure good performance. Players may eat the same meal in which they won last time‚ or touch jersey and fix cap after every pitch and so on. These rituals are seen with hitters and pitchers the most. Baseball and any other sport is never certain‚ a team may win one day and lose the

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    Hopi Tribe

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    The Hopi Tribe Did you know about the Hopi tribe? Well the Hopi tribe is a pretty good tribe. The Hopi have a lot of traditions. The Hopi did have a good location. The Hopi are people who have a lot of facts. The Hopi have a lot of old day traditions. The Hopi did a dance with snakes in their mouths called the Snake Dance. The Hopi often ate a sweet plant base diet and sometimes bread. The women did not do the hunting. The men and young boys did the hunting. They often hunted elk‚ turkey

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    Yanomami Tribe

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    The Yanomami is a tribe located in Northern Brazil and Venezuela‚ South America. They live in the rainforests and mountains environments. They both live off the land and farm. The Yanomami tribe’s population is approximately 32 thousand. The Brazilian land of the Yanomami is about 9.6 million hectares whilst the Yanomami territory of Venezuela is around 8.2 million hectares. Together these two lands make up the largest indigenous territory in the world. Although our culture differs from the Yanomami

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    The Shawnee Tribe

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    The Shawnee Tribe Did you know that the Shawnee Indian tribe is a fascinating tribe? I recently have learned that they are nomads. Nomads are people who travel instead of settling in one place. Southern Ohio‚ West Virginia‚ and western Pennsylvania were a couple of states they once lived in. Until around 1660 Iroquois drove out the tribe to southern Carolina‚ Tennessee’s Cumberland basin‚ eastern Pennsylvania‚ and southern Illinois. They had tried to return‚ but again they were forced to leave

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    Christmas Rituals

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    Laura Sessoms Professor Pettis Comp 1503‚ CRN 1102 September 18‚ 2012 Christmas Rituals Every year‚ my entire family and I get together for Christmas dinner. For as long as I can remember‚ I remember all of my family just sitting in the living room and talking to everyone about how our Christmas has been. My Aunt and Uncle Corrine and Robert Kemp hosted the party every year. It was the one time of year that our whole family would gather. Falling asleep the Christmas eve night

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    Sydney Tribes

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    Tribes of the Sydney SACHA MOLITORISZ‚ The Sydney Morning Herald‚ January 7‚ 2010 The tribes‚ from left: The Emo‚ The SuperGeek‚ The Jock Dolly‚ The Gangsta‚ The Punk Lite‚ The Glamazon‚ The Hipster‚ and The Techno Boho. Photo: John Shakespeare A decade ago‚ Sacha Molitorisz described the subgroups of Sydney’s youth culture. So how have they changed? And what of the new breeds out there on the streets? Just occasionally‚ a young person will make the mistake of thinking that tribes‚ cliques

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    Garo Tribe

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    who call themselves A·chik Mande (literally "hill people‚" from a·chik "hill" + mande "people") or simply A·chik or Mande.[1] They are the second-largest tribe in Meghalaya after theKhasi and comprise about a third of the local population. The Garo community is one of the major tribes in Bangladesh. According to the history books‚ the Garo tribe entered Bangladesh in the first century. They were refugees from Mongolia and came to this region through Tibet. The Garo have stayed in Bangladesh for thousands

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    Krippendorf's Tribe

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    Reaction Paper on the "Krippendorf’s Tribe" 1. Approaches and Methods The quest of the Krippendorf’s family for a lost tribe in New Guinea demonstrates the participant observation method of research as James together with his wife Jennifer and their three children‚ tried living with the observed people‚ learning how they see things and experience things. Unfortunately‚ the family’s search fails despite their best efforts. After Jennifer’s death‚ James as a single father has been living off

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    T'Boli Tribe

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    The Tboli are one of the indigenous peoples of South Cotabato in Southern Mindanao. From the body of ethnographic and linguistic literature on Mindanao they are variously known as Tboli‚ T’boli‚ Tböli‚ Tiboli‚ Tibole‚ Tagabili‚ Tagabeli‚ and Tagabulu. They term themselves Tboli or T’boli. Their whereabouts and identity is to some extend confused in the literature; some publications present the Tboli and the Tagabili as distinct peoples; some locate the Tbolis to the vicinity of the Lake Buluan in

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    Algonquin tribe

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    Algonquin lived in villages of small round buildings called wigwams. With tribes originally numbering in the hundreds The Algonquin were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers‚ collecting food primarily from fishing and hunting. The Algonquin were first encountered by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1603. "Algonquin" was the French name for the tribe. The French were probably trying to pronounce elehgumoqik‚ the Maliseet word for "our allies‚" or Algoomaking‚ a Mi’kmaq place name. The Algonquins

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