Ritual Gesture

Ritual Gesture is a culturally prescribed bodily movement or action that serves as a symbolic and performative element within a ritual, distinguishing itself from ordinary gestures through its formalized, repetitive, and context-specific function in expressing or enacting sacred, social, or spiritual meanings.

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2017–2026

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Ritual Studies

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Blessing GesturesBowing RitualsFunerary GesturesGesture In Devotional PracticeGesture In Healing RitualsGesture In PilgrimageGesture MediationGesture SequencesGesture StandardizationGesture Transmission

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Interaction ritual essays in face-to-face behavior

2017 · 1K citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Psychology +14

On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction

Erving Goffman · Reflections The SoL Journal · 2003 · 744 citations

Social Sciences, Communication, Social Psychology +13

Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Horace Miner · American Anthropologist · 1956 · 478 citations

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Religious Studies +10

Schooling as Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures

John H. Simpson, Peter McLaren · Sociological Analysis · 1988 · 414 citations

Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Religious Studies +17

Gestural communication of the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla): repertoire, intentionality and possible origins

Émilie Genty, Thomas Breuer, Catherine Hobaiter et al. · Animal Cognition · 2009 · 306 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Anthropology, Zoology +16

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Jesper Sørensen
Aarhus University, Denmark
3 publications · 121 citations
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Erving Goffman
University of Pennsylvania, United States
3 publications · 980 citations
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Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
2 publications · 340 citations
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Brad Gasser
University of Southern California, United States
2 publications · 54 citations
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Michael A. Arbib
University of Southern California, United States
2 publications · 54 citations
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American Anthropologist
3 publications · 671 citations
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Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
2 publications · 53 citations
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Animal Cognition
2 publications · 441 citations
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
JRAI · 2 publications · 68 citations
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Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
2 publications · 45 citations
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