Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?

Abstract

Calvin, who introduces this collection of essays on ritual in its own right, understands ritual as well as many anthropologists.Calvin is dramatizing thematics that I am trying to avoid.Complaining about the peanut butter, spoiled because his mother did not observe the proper ritual for scooping it out, he is telling us: do the ritual correctly.It exists because it has a function-control.Perform control in your ritual, and you will have control in your life.The ritual of how to scoop out peanut butter is a representation of life.Living produces its own symbols, its own reflections, and these are the ritual, existing to Social Analysis, Volume 48, Issue 2, Summer 2004, 1-32

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