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Ritual substitution is a process in which one object replaces another for the purpose of a ritual. An expendable object may be substituted for a valuable one: for instance, the Nuer tribe of southern Sudan used cucumbers to replace valuable oxen in sacrificial rituals. In other rites, people may represent gods or other people; for instance, in a séance the medium may act as a ritual substitute for the dead person with whom communication is attempted.

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This is a listing of the 85 Federalist Papers, which were key documents in the early political history of the United States. The articles were written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay and were published in 1788. The authorship of some of the papers is disputed and is difficult to settle conclusively since all the essays were written under the same pseudonym, Publius. The table below follows the modern scholarly consensus as to authorship. The date given is that of the first publication in a newspaper.