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27 janvier 2022
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Pascal Boyer, « 3. Why ritualized behavior? », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.256naw
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Introductory Note Why do people perform rituals? Over the world and however far we can go in the past, human groups seem to engage in what we would recognize as, well, ‘rituals’ of some kind or other, even though we may be very unclear about what that term is supposed to convey. Pierre Liénard nudged me to join forces and re-open that question, which used to be central in classical anthropology, together with the additional query, what is the connection (if any) between the collective ceremon...