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Ritual Explanations

Ritual Explanations is a theoretical framework within the study of etiological tales that identifies and analyzes culturally prescribed rituals as the primary causal mechanisms through which mythic events are interpreted and legitimized.

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5.5K

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127

Authors

65

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2017–2026

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Publications

100

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People.

Marilyn Strathern, Roy A. Rappàport · Man · 1968 · 1.3K citations

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Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals

Pascal Boyer, Pierre Liénard · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 2006 · 600 citations

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Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs

Richard Sosis, Helen M. Kress, James S. Boster · Evolution and Human Behavior · 2007 · 280 citations

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Rites of Terror: Emotion, Metaphor and Memory in Melanesian Initiation Cults

Harvey Whitehouse · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 1996 · 239 citations

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Prey into Hunter: The Politics of Religious Experience

T. O. Beidelman, Maurice Bloch · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 1994 · 224 citations

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Authors

127

  1. ZH
    Ze Hong

    Harvard University, United States

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  2. RF
    Richard Fardon

    SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 28 citations

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  3. PJ
    Pieter Jolly

    University of Cape Town, South Africa

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  4. CH
    Cristine H. Legare

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    2 publications · 99 citations

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  5. ES
    Edward Slingerland

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    2 publications · 37 citations

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Institutions

65

  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    100 citations

  2. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    858 citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    131 citations

  4. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  5. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  6. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    81 citations

  7. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

    Kiel, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    53 citations

  8. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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Venues

  1. Man

    6 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 151 citations

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  3. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

    JSSR · 3 publications · 210 citations

    3

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  4. Journal of American Folklore

    JAF · 3 publications · 61 citations

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  5. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    JRAI · 3 publications · 299 citations

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