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Perhaps the haunting tune of the lament of the Hebrew slaves in Babylon from Verdi’s opera Nabucco would, after all, have been the most fitting accompaniment to the transfer ceremonies, not the Chinese triumphalism and imperial nostalgia whose strange, chilly mix characterized that midnight pageant.

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So to take one example among many: in Southern India there's a practice known as jholabhari, in which the pregnant woman, when she's seven or eight months pregnant, moves in with her mother and goes through a series of rituals and ceremonies, give birth and returns home to her nuclear family several months after the child is born.

It used to be the time where only kings wore a leopard skin, but now throughout rituals and ceremonies, traditional healers and ministers.

Did any of you see the Beijing Olympics, the opening ceremonies?

In most of the ceremonies, I noticed that most of the women and girls were not in sight, but when they were, I noticed that they would wear their dancing skirts and shake their waists off, singing, clapping, ululating, while the men filled up the rhythm section.

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