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- Rituals feature repetitive, stereotyped behaviors that signal an animal’s disposition and catalytically enhance its capacity to act. That is, rituals are fundamentally communicative and performative.
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Aug 8, 2020 · The ritual cycle revolves around periodic warfare between groups who compete over resources and retaliate over transgressions. Groups form alliances with extended kin networks to aid in battle. Rituals are performed before the beginning of warfare to inform the ancestors of the intention to fight.
- Cristine H Legare, Mark Nielsen, Mark Nielsen
- 2020
Sep 1, 2020 · Ritual behaviour, intended as a specific, repetitive and rigid form of action flow, appears both in social and non-social environmental contexts, representing an ubiquitous phenomenon in animal life including human individuals and cultures.
- Matteo Tonna, Davide Ponzi, Paola Palanza, Carlo Marchesi, Stefano Parmigiani
- 2020
Ritual is a window toward our biological or animal being and our cultural being; it is also the point at which these dimensions intersect, mingle, and influence one another. The concept of ritualization is one of the cornerstones of ritual studies, though the term has different meanings and uses.
Mar 1, 2019 · Rituals have a central role throughout phylogeny, psychopathology as well as in human individual and collective behavior. • Rituals tend to manifest comparable formal features and functions, suggesting underlying homologous characteristics. •
- Matteo Tonna, Carlo Marchesi, Stefano Parmigiani
- 2019
Ritual addresses an adaptive problem encountered by all species: how to coordinate the actions of individuals into collective, socially coherent and coordinated patterns.
Ritual is a form of repetitive and communicative behavior that humans and animals share. As such, ritual is deeply embedded in our evolutionary past. In this book, we have defined a ritual as a patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of enactment of cultural (or individual) beliefs and values.
Jan 1, 2020 · Ritual, in general, refers to patterned behavior, possibly repetitious, that is usually fraught with symbolism. Simply put, it is a force for connection, communication, cooperation, coordination, cohesion, control, and influence.
