Definition: A degradation ceremony is a rite of passage sometimes used to initiate people into total institutions such as mental hospitals, prisons, and military units.
2:05 pm August 23, 2011. The music video for Bon Iverâs âHoloceneâ premiered last week, debuting on the National Geographic website. The song, taken from Bon Iverâs self-titled album, a follow-up to 2008âs acclaimed For Emma, Forever Ago, entitled âHoloceneâ was shot entirely in Iceland by the Australian director/photographer Nabil Elderkin.
Landâuse change in a fragmented tropical forest landscape in the highlands near Sapa, Vietnam, showing the scale of habitat loss, the altered spatial arrangement of remaining rainforest habitats and the mosaic of human landâuse intensification in the surrounding landscape matrix.