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Call for papers:The Ritual Year 2016 Regulating Customs
THE 12TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SIEF WORKING GROUP ON THE RITUAL YEAR January 8-12 2016, Findhorn, Scotland

The 12th annual conference of the SIEF Working Group on the Ritual Year, hosted by the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, will be held at Findhorn, on the shores of the Moray Firth in northern Scotland.

The conference theme will explore the parallel, intertwined systems that regulate customary practices. These largely unwritten mechanisms have a traditionality of their own, based on social relationships, hierarchies, and lawmaking institutions. Together, these symbiotic systems foster a range of stability and change within customs: creativity and innovation, control and regulation, preservation and even ossification. They shape, preserve, and develop customary practices.

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