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OCR: Ceremony and ritual Ceremonies and rituals played a very significant role in the lives of the Bomagai-Angoiang and all other New Guinean groups (as do ceremonies and rituals in the lives of all peoples, whether or not they believe themselves to be particular ceremonial or ritualistic). The beliefs behind Bomagai-Angoiang ceremonies and rituals and their ideas about the function and purpose of magic cannot be described here in any detail. The best source of information on these topics is the widely known book by anthropologist Roy Rappaport, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinean People.