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  • A happy couple embracing each other after just having been married at a drive-thru wedding at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. They are standing in the sunroof of a rented Limousine and the bride is holding the marriage certificate. They groom is an immigrant from Nepal. The wedding industry is the third largest in Las Vegas after gambling and entertainment.
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  • A Jewish girl performs her bat mitzvah, her coming of age ceremony, at Temple Avoda, a Reform synagogue, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. The girl carries the holy Torah scrolls through the synagogue  after reading extracts to the congregation. Jewish tradition dictates that a girl comes of age at twelve, though in Reform and Conservative Jewish congregations they usually become bat mitzvahs at thirteen, the same age as boys.
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  • Attendants dance and carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Attendant dances with a boy on his shoulders during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003. The boy is dressed up as a prince in rememberance of the Buddha.
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  • A small Shan orchestra plays in a temple at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • A basket filled with candy, maize and money is poured over an Apache girl at her Sunrise Dance, a first menstruation rite, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA. This symbolises good luck and material wealth. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • An Apache girl drinks water through a straw at her Sunrise Dance, a frist menstruation rite,  on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA.  Behind the girl, who is dressed in buckskin clothes, the medicine man and his helpers, who sing and beat their drums during the dance, are having a rest. The Sunrise Dance is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • Relatives dance with  boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at  Poy Sang Long,  a yearly ceremony at which boys are ordained as novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The princely clothing is worn in memory of the Buddha who was a prince before becoming a monk. Practically every Shan boy goes through this three-day ceremony sometime between the age of eight and fourteen. After the ordination, the boy spends about one month in a Buddhist monastery and then usually returns to normal life again.
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  • Attendants dance with boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Apache girls dressed in camp dresses and moccasins sit on the platform of a pickup truck during a Sun Rise Dance, a first menstruation rite, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA.
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  • The participants in a Sunrise Dance, the first menstruation rite of an Apache girl, on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, USA, grab as much as they can of the snacks and sweets and drinks that have been placed in along row on the ground. This symbolises good luck and material wealth. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The ceremony is an enactment of the Apache creation myth and during the rites the girl ’becomes‘ Changing Woman, a mythical female figure, and comes into possession of her healing powers. The rites are also supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • A young Amerindian woman, taking part in the wayunka ceremony in the Cochabamba Area, Bolivia, catches a decorated basket with her feet while sitting on a swing. The ceremony, which is a fertility rite and sexual flirt with the men watching it, is held at the end of Todos Santos and symbolises the return of life after several days of death rites.
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  • At the end of a Sunrise Dance, the first menstruaton rite of an Apache girl, on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, Arizona, USA, a caravan of pickups loaded with gifts travel from the camp of the family of the girl to the camp of her godparents. Girls dressed in camp dress and moccasins sit on the platform of the last pickup. The Sunrise Dance is the most important ceremony of the Apache Indians. It is held during the summer, within one year after the girl has had her first menstruation, and lasts for four days. The rites are supposed to prepare the girl for adulthood and to give her a long and healthy life without material wants.
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  • An old woman throws rice at one of her great grandsons while he dances on the shoulders of a relative during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Attendants carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • An Elvis impersonator and a newly wed couple in a Cadillac Convertible at an Elvis Themed Wedding in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. June 2004. The ceremony took place at A Little White Wedding Chapel. The wedding industry is the third largest in Las Vegas after gambling and entertainment.
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  • Relatives dance in the family yard together with boys dressed up as princes during Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Attendants carry boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks in Mae Hong Son, Thailand. April 2003.
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  • Realtives dance with boys dressed up as princes on their shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
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  • Attendant dances with a boy on his shoulders at Poy Sang Long, the yearly ordination of novice monks, Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The boy is dressed up as prince in rememberance of the Buddha.
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  • At the henna party of a newly circumcised boy who lives in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey, the boy dances with a red cloth bearing the emblem of the Turkish flag draped over his shoulders. Female family members and friends clap their hands while he dances.
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  • A newly circumcised boy dances with relatives and neighbors at a henna party held in the courtyard outside the family home in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 24, 2006. As is the custom, the boy is dressed in a sultan's outfit.
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  • Friends join a Jewish bat mitzvah girl in party games in New Jersey, USA. She belongs to a Reform Jewish synagogue, where Sabbath observance rules are less strict than among Conservative or Orthodox congregations, and her reception is held straight after the synagogue ceremony.
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  • Performing the traditional  horah, where everyone dances in a circle and holds the boy up in a chair, a Jewish boy's bar mitzvah is celebrated the day after the ceremony was held in his Conservative synagogue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA. Since the ceremony was performed on a Sabbath the party could not be held on the same day. In Judaism, a boy comes of age at thirteen, when he becomes a bar mitzvah and assumes responsibility for his own actions.
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