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Human Growth and Development / Unit 17   HGD 2449 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Rituals and Technology

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The idea

The pandemic curtailed funerals, communal meals and religious rites such as Jewish mourning visits and Islamic and Jewish body-purification rites.

In practice

Aboriginal Australians conducting Sorry Business partly on social media, given large kin networks and long journeys.

Where people slip

Memorial pages and livestreamed funerals are now common ways of mourning together at a distance.

Your place on the trail

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