blog schedule.
blogs marked * are required research for seminars
blog 20 |
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blog subject:Describe the major events in the life cycle of people in your people group. |
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resource questions for blog research:life cycle |
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| How does a person mark the transition from one rank of status to the next? | |
| Is there a special burial place? | |
| What determines the rhythm of life and festivities? | |
| What kind of festivities are celebrated? (e.g. fertility festivals, birth or name, puberty, engagement, wedding, ceremonies relating to war, hunt, religion, officials, rank, mourning, burial, victory, dedication of property) | |
| How are people buried? Describe what happens and why each thing is done. | |
| What happens to a person when he/she dies? | |
| What is conceived – the soul or the body? | |
| Are there different types of time? | |
| Is time linear, cyclical, or like a oscillating? | |
| What remains after the death of a person? | |
| How do people come into existence? What were they before they were born? | |
| What do they think is man's destiny? Man's origin? | |
| Does a person need a sponsor from above to move up in status? Does he need supernatural sponsorship? | |
| When does the soul take possession of the body of the newly conceived child? (at conception? At the first movement of the child? At birth? At some special ceremony?) | |
| Can the soul of the deceased be born another time? | |
| What are the major rituals of the people, and what themes are expressed in them? | |