Ritual as a Means of Intercultural Communication

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201215.350How to use a DOI?

Keywords

secular and religious rituals, life-cycle rituals, the Apache Sunrise ceremony, religious rituals of Russian Caspian region, indigenous tourism and intercultural communications

Abstract

Rituals of different peoples of the contemporary world are presented in the article, perceived as a universal means of intercultural communication. The authors review some secular rituals of North America and religious ones of the Russian Caspian region. The coming-of-age ceremony of the North American Indian Apache community is submitted as a particular fulfillment of the contemporaneity’s interethnic communications. The Apache’s rite of passage attracts not only members of the Native American tribe but also the plethora of travelers worldwide. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the rituals in their function of integrating people of a particular ethnic culture and representatives of the others, participating in a ritual as spectators. The authors underline the humanistic and communicative traits of the rituals.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Denis I. Chistyakov
AU  - Olga V. Chistyakova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - Ritual as a Means of Intercultural Communication
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 305
EP  - 309
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.350
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.350
ID  - Chistyakov2020
ER  -