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Keening: Taiwan's Professional Mourners

Translated from the Chinese by Conor Stuart. Photos courtesy of Liu Junnan and Wang Zhengxiang When did keening become so forced? A Mei: 'There was always someone there saying: Now…travel and...

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Gender and Weddings in Taiwan

Red candles, ceremonial cannons, fresh flowers, everybody coming together to celebrate, but with all the throwing of fans (the bride throws a fan on the ground to represent that she's… Throwing the fan...

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The Evolution of Rituals

Rituals and celebrations have always been a source of fascination for me. Despite growing up in Spain, my brother and I were raised by atheist parents and didn't undergo many…We always celebrated...

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After the Quake: Rituals in North Western Sichuan

Rituals organize and symbolize a way of living together. Through the enactment of rituals, a community expresses its fear, its solidarity and its longings. In traditional societies, performing rituals...

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Goodbye, my dear sister

  I have been thinking for a long time how to start this article. What tone of voice can I use to remember you, my dearest sister? I’ll start from…On a Sunday noon, I noticed that your door was...

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The shape of rituals, happiness, and camera lenses

  “A photograph is not only an image, an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stencilled off the real” ~Susan Sontag I like to shoot…For example, when the bride-to-be is...

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