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EveryTradition

Kinds of tradition

Spiritual rites, festivals, life-cycle ceremonies, food, dress, music, manners, crafts, games, folklore and civic ceremony: thirteen ways of looking at what people do.

Spiritual and religiousRites, prayers, pilgrimages, fasts and sacred days.386Festivals and celebrationsThe days a community stops, gathers and celebrates.631Life-cycle ritesBirth, naming, coming of age, marriage and death.44Customs of food and drinkThe customs around eating and drinking: feasts, fasts, hosting and ceremony. Not recipes.129Seasons, harvest and the calendarCustoms tied to a season, a harvest, a moon or a day of the week.269Dress and adornmentClothes, jewellery, henna, tattoo and hair.33Music, dance and storytellingSongs, dances, theatre, epic poetry and oral history.254Greetings, manners and hospitalityHow people greet, host, give gifts and behave at the table.24Crafts and makingWeaving, pottery, carving and other handed-down skills.67Games, sport and playTraditional sport, children's games, martial arts and contests.53Folklore and beliefLegends, superstitions, charms and customs of luck.140Home and family lifeThe house, the hearth, the family and the neighbourhood.48Royal, civic and national ceremonyCoronations, courts, parades, oaths and national days.157

The weekly EveryTradition

Every week: one tradition from somewhere new, what is being celebrated around the world this week, and one idea explained.