Become More Real Through Repetition

Become Real Through Repetition

Borrow Authority

Carry Meaning

Create Attachment

Create Belonging

Create Common Ground

Create Continuity

Create Depth

Create Memory

Create Predictability

Depend On Sequence

Improve Through Repetition

Invite Return

Organize Life

Organize Time

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Explanations

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Recruit The Past

Repeat

Return

Reward Participation

Reward Presence

Reward Repetition

Smell Like A Barber Shop

Synchronize

Turn Chance Into Habit

Turn Space Into Place

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is a group neurosis, but one that groups cannot do without. We could cure a group of its ritualizing merely by demythologizing its conviction that rituals stand for anything other than the projected group will.

It is not too much to say that for Durkheim, ritual is a group neurosis, but one that groups cannot do without. We could cure a group of its ritualizing merely by demythologizing its conviction that rituals stand for anything other than the projected group will.

is a means by which we express our social dependence. What is important in ritual is our common participation and emotional involvement, not the specific rationalizations by which we account for the rite.

For Durkheim ritual is a means by which we express our social dependence. What is important in ritual is our common participation and emotional involvement, not the specific rationalisations by which we account for the rite.

is a metaphorical system for maintaining and communicating ideas of social order.

a metaphorical system for maintaining and communicating ideas of social order: 'the magic of primitive ritual creates harmonious worlds with ranked and ordered populations playing their appointed parts. So far from being meaningless, it is primitive magic which gives meaning to existence. This applies as much to the negative as to the positive rites. The prohibitions trace the cosmic outlines and the ideal social order'

is a self-contained act, the aim of which is achieved in its very performance. It endorses and duplicates the natural feelings of the survivors... it creates a social event out of a natural fact.

here, as in the religious ceremonies previously described, we find self-contained acts, the aim of which is achieved in their very performance. The ritual despair, the obsequies, the acts of mourning, express the emotion of the bereaved and the loss of the whole group. They endorse and they duplicate the natural feelings of the survivors... they create a social event out of a natural fact. Yet, though in the acts of mourning, in the mimic despair of wailing, in the treatment of the corpse and in its disposal, nothing ulterior is achieved, these acts fulfill an important function and possess a considerable value for primitive culture' (52).

is a sort of magical glue or lubricant contrast this with marx, for whom it can either bind people together or blind them to their own best interest.

For Durkheim, ritual is a sort of magical glue or lubricant, whereas for Marx, it can either bind people together or blind them to their own best interest. But the human being described by both Durkheim and Marx is basically a social animal rather than a symbol-using one.

is a transformative performance conducted in a special place and designed to influence preternatural entities or forces on behalf of the actor.

A ritual is a stereotyped sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and designed to influence preternatural entities or forces on behalf of the actors' goals and interests. Rituals may be seasonal, hallowing a culturally defined moment of change in the climatic cycle or the inauguration of an activity such as planting, harvesting, or moving from winter to summer pasture... or they may be contingent, held in response to an individual or collective crisis. Contingent rituals may be further subdivided into life-crisis ceremonies, which are performed at birth, puberty, marriage, death, and so on, to demarcate the passage from one phase to another in the individual's life-cycle, and rituals of affliction, which are performed to placate or exorcise preternatural beings or forces believed to have afflicted villagers with illness, bad luck, gynecological troubles, severe physical injuries, and the like. Other classes of rituals include divinatory rituals... ceremonies performed by political authorities to ensure the health and fertility of human beings, animals, and crops in their territories... initiation into priesthoods devoted to certain deities, into religious associations, or into secret societies... and those accompanying the daily offering of food and libations to deities or ancestral spirits or both.[21]

is a transformative performance revealing major classifications, categories, and contradictions of cultural processes.

transformative performance revealing major classifications, categories, and contradictions of cultural processes.

is almost the exact same as the mundane except for the aspect of sacredness, which is characterized by conventionality, rigidity, fusion, and repetition.

Tambiah defines the ritual domain more exhausfivplv. as characterized by the following features: 'formality (conventionality), stereotypy (rigidity), condensation (fusion), and redundancy (repetition)' (1979, 119) in Kondo 1990:110).

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