SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...

RILA MOUNTAINS, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Lilya Ivanova, a 29-year-old Bulgarian psychologist, glows with joy. She has just finished a ritual dance along with some 2,500 white-clad followers of the ...

Journal of Ritual Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, Special Issue: Ritual Creativity, Emotions and the Body (2014), pp. 51-63 (13 pages) Deep emotions seem inseparable from the construction of efficacy in much ...

Deep into the night, the sound of drums reverberated through the township of Mufakose in Zimbabwe's capital city. Barefoot dancers pulsated to the beat in colorful clothing and gory masks. Some had ...

Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens ABSTRACT Although the François vase clearly depicts Theseus leading a dance upon his arrival on Crete, most commentators ...