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This paper analyzes the use of medicine in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony". It discusses the disorders suffered by the protagonist Tayo, and how his ailments are treated by two different kinds of medicine namely, traditional western medicine and Native American medicine. It also explores the author's prospective on medicine.

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"To understand the use of medicine to cure illness in Leslie Marmon Silko's novel, "Ceremony" medicine must be regarded within a cultural context. Traditional Western medicine is based on the belief that illness is organically determined relying mainly on drugs ..."

Tags:Ceremony, Silko, Medicine

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This paper discusses the use of ceremony in Native American Indian culture, including the powwow and the Gourd Dance.

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"Ceremony is something that American culture has largely dispensed with. Weddings are often conducted in bizarre locales such as in helium balloons or on the backs of jet skis or just by a justice of the peace instead of in an elaborate ceremony in a church that is replete with time-honored ritual. Religious rituals such as observing the Sabbath all day have been relegated to only a few of the most devout religious sects. Even rituals as common as..."

Tags:Native American Indian, culture, ceremony, ritual, powwow, Gourd Dance, communication

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This paper analyzes the novel "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko with the thesis that mythology is the core of the novel. The paper discusses the universality of myths as the central theme.

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"Mythology is an integral part of the protagonist Tayo's journey in "Ceremony." Although it is the Laguna people and their stories that form the backbone of the novel, the myths that Leslie Marmon Silko uses are archetypes found not only in Native American mythology but in Judeo-Christian tradition as well as other cultures. The universality of these myths is the central theme to "Ceremony," that by accepting these myths and his role within them, Tayo is able to find fulfillment."

Tags:mythology, silko, ceremony

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In this article, the writer identifies the historical background and the origin of the Japanese tea ceremony and discusses how the complex nature of the tea ceremony bears the imprint of Japan's spiritual, ethics and aesthetic traditions. The writer argues that although the Japanese tea ceremony has its origin in China, it has now become a peculiarly cultural phenomenon to Japan, which has a great impact on many different aspects of Japanese culture. The writer maintains that the Japanese tea ceremony will continue to play an important role in Japanese culture and serve a great influence on intellectual and personal development of Japanese culture including pottery, calligraphy and flower arrangement. The writer concludes that it was the Japanese who expanded the ritual, philosophical, and aesthetic connotations in the tea ceremony, and turned it into a way of life.

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"Rikyu introduced the concept of ichigoichie that imprints Japan's spiritual and ethical tradition. The concept of ichigoichie explains that each occasion in our life would be only one chance that never can be repeated. This concept emphasises the value of each occasion to meet others and suggests that we should not neglect conducting appropriate behaviours and arrangements for it. Therefore, the utensils, flowers, vase and wall hangings in the tea ceremony are chosen carefully to suit the event, the time of year, and the desired atmosphere for each occasion.
"The selection of objects in a Japanese tea ceremony involves aesthetic traditions of the concept including wabi and sabi that are generally regarded as derived from the appreciation of Zen."

Tags:ritual, tradition, Zen, spirit

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This paper discusses the novel, "Ceremony", by Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper analyzes the way in which myths and prose work together in the story and the effect that this creates. The papers also compares Silko's style in "Ceremony" to later works of her's and discusses some of the differences that are found between her earlier work and her later ones.

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"The publication of her widely praised first novel Ceremony in 1977 established Leslie Marmon Silko as a notable new talent in contemporary American literature. Modifying the traditional novel to reflect her Native American culture, Silko revealed a willingness to experiment with form that would continue to characterize her writing. The long-awaited Almanac of the Dead (1991) exhibited new facets of her extraordinary talent: this second novel is more complex, more shocking, and more apocalyptic than Ceremony in fact, than any other novel of the latter part of the century. Poised between these two texts, the collection of short fiction, photographs, and autobiography entitled Storyteller (1981) confirmed Silko's determination to alter traditional Euro-American literary forms to accommodate her own heritage."

Tags:prose, myth, Pueblo, storytelling

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Tayo finds redemption by realizing the importance of ceremony. Silko's ceremony, therefore, serves as a vehicle to integration, fusing the individual not only with him/herself, but also with the community and the entire spiritual world.

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This three-page undergraduate paper is on the texts "Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko". It includes the way both Abbey and Tayo (from Silko's Ceremony) share the impulse. It also discusses how this process works for both of them and whether it functions in the same way or both. What does it mean for each to identify with nature? Why do they wish to do so? How fully do they succeed, and what do they learn about the limits that they confront to this effort?

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This paper presents a review of the book "Ceremony" written by Leslie Marmon Silko. The paper examines how Silko melds the themes of the difficulties of simply being an Indian in America with the difficulties of post-traumatic stress syndrome in returning World War II veterans. The paper focuses on the 'battle-fatigued' protagonist, Tayo, the product of a native and a Caucasian couple.

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"As a solider, Tayo experienced approval from Whites, but it was a false approval, only given to him because he was ready to be killed for White America, and a White cause. After his usefulness to America as a Marine has been expended, Tayo finds himself where other Indians who were cruelly treated by the American government are-back on a reservation, with nothing to show for his suffering. But from a narrative point of view, author's Silko's setting of a reservation enables her to weave ancient Pueblo Indian myths and songs, as well as Indian female experiences with the struggles and eventual coming of age of this troubled GI protagonist. "

Tags:tayo, racism, battle, fatigue

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This paper presents a detailed discussion about the novel Ceremony by Leslie Marmo Silko. The writer of this paper discusses the way Silko develops her characters and why she may have constructed them the way she did.

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At first glance, "Ceremony" by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The Long Goodbye" by Raymond Chandler seem to have nothing in common. The former represents the psychological struggle of Native Americans in their search for identity in the United States, while the latter seems the usual detective story Marlowe has created. This paper, however, points out that there are several underlying motives and structures that do not make an attempt at comparing the two works futile. One would be a comparison between the two main characters, while another may compare the story's plot and the irony techniques that the writers use.

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"Tayo's suffering is physical, but, most of all, emotional and psychological. His distress does not come only from his imprisonment in Japan during the war, but also from his torment related to his place as a half Native American in the American post-war society. Integration seems, in the beginning, impossible for Tayo. This comes from his double ethnicity which means that he may be rejected by both societies. In many ways, this is something that Leslie Marmon Silko has experienced herself."

Tags:tayo, native, american, marlowe