In many of the Pacific countries, there has been a heavy emphasis on ritual.
Most of the focus has been on rituals for life-cycle events.
Even at home, Europeans place more importance than we do on ceremony and ritual.
The story focuses on the lives, morals, and rituals of the families.
They dance on important rituals, during festivals and also for recreation.
These forms of sexuality were dependent on specific codes and rituals to give them meaning.
The clergy also became more important and more emphasis was put on public rituals.
Turner was also a committed ethnographer and produced work on ritual.
The third section is focused on rituals and ceremonies, particularly those that end the 52-year cycle, when the "new fire" must be lit.
He said there was no greater satisfaction than coming home with notes on rituals and relationships that no one else had ever before written about.