A beautifully illustrated guide for connecting with the earth, your ancestors, and your communities as you come home to your whole self Despite our best efforts, our modern world leaves so many of us feeling isolated, unworthy, and alone. We’re unrooted from the land, untethered from our lineages, disconnected from our communities, and separated from our deepest sense of self. In Root and Ritual, Becca Piastrelli offers a pathway back to connection and wholeness through rituals, recipes, and ancestral wisdom. “Though we live in a radically different-looking world, the needs of our bodies and spirits are the same as the ancestors we came from.” Divided into four parts—Land, Lineage, Community, and Self—this book takes you on a journey for engaging more deeply with your life: Part 1 introduces practices for reconnecting with the land, including seasonal recipes, crafting with plants, and tending your homeIn Part 2, you’ll learn to reclaim the gifts of your lineage as you understand past harms and explore the traditional folklore, foods, and arts of those who came beforePart 3 centers around community, helping you cultivate sisterhood and celebrate meaningful rites of passageIn Part 4, you’ll return to yourself as you open your intuition, tune in to your body, and awaken the wild woman within A rich and dynamic treasure chest of timeless teachings, Root and Ritual is a beautiful guide for knowing who you are—and that you belong here.

A beautifully illustrated guide for connecting with the earth, your ancestors, and your communities as you come home to your whole self Most modern women feel more alone than ever. We’re unrooted from the land that is our home, untethered from our long line of ancestors, disconnected from our communities, and separated from our deepest sense of self. According to author Becca Piastrelli, much of this loneliness stems from the ways we’ve lost touch with our ancestral ways of living. “Though we live in a radically different-looking world, the needs of our bodies and spirits are the same as the ancestors we came from,” she writes. “We need community, ritual, and knowledge of the earth. We need to remember who we really are.” With Root and Ritual, Piastrelli offers women a pathway back to connection and wholeness through recipes, rituals, and a wealth of ancestral wisdom. In this beautifully illustrated guide, she presents a four-part journey for deepening into your life: Part 1 introduces practices for reconnecting with the land, including crafting with plants and tending your home. In Part 2, you’ll learn to reclaim the gifts of your lineage as you heal past harms and explore the traditional folklore, foods, and arts of those who came before. Part 3 centers around community, helping you cultivate sisterhood and celebrate meaningful rites of passage. And in Part 4, you’ll come home to yourself as you open your intuition, tune in to your body, and awaken the wild woman within.

"Root and Ritual takes knowledge of ancestral traditions and uses it as a doorway to help women reconnect with their own deeply intertwined roots that go back thousands of years as a relevant and critical way of thriving in the modern world. It offers deeply seeded truths to liberate them from the ways of being that aren't helping them thrive, as well as recipes, rituals, and instructions for their journey to feeling rooted and connected. This book also seeks to support the reader in integrating these practices in a progressive, and socially conscious way"--

Explore the world of hoodoo with an experienced rootworker in this friendly, accessible guide to rituals, spells, and other traditional folk magic. Rootwork, also known as hoodoo or conjure, is an African American folk magic influenced by a blend of African beliefs, traditions, and cultures. This book includes step-by-step guidance for over 80 rituals, spells, and techniques that can help manifest your goals and transform your life. Written by a descendant of African American and Filipino rootworkers, Paris Ajana (also known as the Hoodoo Goddess) guides you on a spiritual journey, teaching skills such as: Preparing altars and sacred spaces Crystal spells, herb magic, and candle creation Constructing mojo bags, doll babies, and honey jars And much more! Learn to connect with the spirits of your ancestors to invigorate your mind, body, and soul as you delve into the mystical world of rootwork.

The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.

Most of the contributions were first presented at a conference at the University of Notre Dame. Bibliography: p. 235-245.