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Xygalatas, Dimitris

 
9781788161039: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
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ISBN 10: 1788161033 ISBN 13: 9781788161039
Editorial: Profile Books, 2024

Sinopsis

A Radio 4 Book of the Week

WINNER OF THE CAROL R. EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLGY

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE

From fire walking to funerals, the hidden science of the rituals that give life meaning

Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery until now.

Today, a fearless new generation of anthropologists is venturing into this shadowy realm. Armed with cutting-edge technology and drawing on discoveries from a huge range of disciplines, they emerge with a powerful new perspective on our place in the world. Join the pathfinding scientist Dimitris Xygalatas on a tour of human culture at its strangest. In coronations, in silent prayer, in fire-walks and in all the bewildering variety of humanity's ritual life, Xygalatas reveals the deep and subtle mechanisms that bind us together.

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Acerca del autor

Dimitris Xygalatas is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist. He runs the experimental anthropology lab at the University of Connecticut. This is his first trade book.

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Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remained a mystery until now.

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Profile Books
Año de publicación
2024
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ISBN 10 
1788161033
ISBN 13 
9781788161039
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
320
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9780316462402: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

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ISBN 10:  0316462403 ISBN 13:  9780316462402
Editorial: Little Brown Spark, 2022
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