Defining ritual
 

Graeber / Wengrow 116: "Ritual occasions can either be much more stiff and formal, or much more wild and playful, than ordinary life. Alternatively, like funerals and wakes, they can slip back and forth between the two. [...] This is why anthropologists have such trouble defining what a 'ritual' even is"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #anthropology, #ritual

> created August 6, 2024 at 2:16:29 PM


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