ABSTRACT
Application of these criteria is not always easy. For example, how many common elements are needed in two complicated marriage ceremonies before the two ceremonies may be judged 'similar' or 'related'? In making such comparisons, I would suggest, it is necessary to isolate those elements of a ceremony which are of primary significance, and these are to be found either
(i) at the culminating point of the ritual-in the case of a wedding, when the actual transfer of a bride from her own group to that of her husband is thought and felt to take place, or
(ii) as enduring features of the entire ceremony. An example of the first kind of significant element is the handing of an arrow
1 1958, p. 6.
