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"The lack of specific definitions for festivals and rituals has, at times led to ambiguity in determining what can be classified as ritual … anthropologists have observed that festivals and rituals often occur around the major events of the human life cycle … fertility, childbirth, naming, healing, initiation, adulthood, marriage, death and funeral rites …” (Svoboda, 2010, p. 775).