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Ritual Sacrifice in the Music and Noise of a Metal Festival

, 2019
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Sacrifice and Evolutionary Incentive: Epigenetic Applications of the Ritual

Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture, 2021
Nowadays in paleoanthropology it becomes more and more evident that the process of encephalopathy has guided our evolutionary line and that it can be investigated following two main strands of interpretation: the one based on selective mechanisms, which act on large numbers and in a completely random way, and which constitutes the cornerstone of the ...
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Concept Sacrifice in Ritual Discourse of Mythopoetic Epoch

Scientific Research and Development. Modern Communication Studies, 2018
The point of issue of the paper is the concept sacrifice as a part of speech activity that is pertain to the archaic sacrificial ritual. The work aims a fullscale reconstruction of the concept represented in the ritual discourse in its heyday. The paper studies the concept in conjunction of its notional, emotive, visual and value-referred components ...
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Entropy, Sacrifice and Lévi-Strauss’s Dismissal of Ritual

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2011
Abstract Levi-Strauss’s scientism positions structuralism midway between information theory and semiotics, a limitation that appears most clearly in his treatment of ritual. At specific junctures Levi-Strauss could have taken his research more towards semiotics, but opted to hew closely to the information paradigm.
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Time and Sacrifice—the Sacrifice of Time and the Ritual of Modernity

1978
In most traditions, liturgical time does not tally with ordinary, everyday time. The latter is governed by the horizontal succession of daily occurrences. The former would like us to enter into contact with a privileged moment, which appears to be discontinuous when seen from the perspective of linear-chronological time.
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Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

Nature, 2016
Evidence for human sacrifice is found throughout the archaeological record of early civilizations, the ethnographic records of indigenous world cultures, and the texts of the most prolific contemporary religions. According to the social control hypothesis, human sacrifice legitimizes political authority and social class systems, functioning to ...
Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Atkinson, Q., Bulbulia, J., Gray, R.   +4 more
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Ritual as assemblage: feast of sacrifice experiences of Turkish consumers

Journal of Islamic Marketing, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to theorize and empirically investigate the formation of consumer’s consumption ritual experiences and discourses associated with Feast of Sacrifice. Design/methodology/approach The authors have approached the data from assemblage theory perspective.
Ömer Torlak, Müjdat Özmen, Muhammet Ali Tiltay, Mahmut Sami İşlek, Ufuk Ay   +4 more
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The Charisma of Central Banking: From Sacrifice to Rituals

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
The article adopts the approach of the cultural study of law as developed mostly (but not exclusively) by Paul Kahn in order to explain the potential for charisma of contemporary central banks. The analysis focuses on the European Central Bank (ECB) and on Draghi's famous statement: 'we will do whatever it takes to save the Euro'.
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Ritual Scenes and Epic Themes of Oath-Sacrifice

2005
T he theories outlined in chapter 1 and the cultural prin ciples and premises described in Chapter 2 provide us with lenses through which we now can examine the Iliad's two complete oath sacrifices of Books 3 and 19. In the first part of this chapter, we shall examine each element of the oath-sacrificing ritual scene, as well as the cohesion of its ...
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Rituals of Sacrifice in Early Post‐European Contact Tonga and Tahiti

The Journal of Pacific History, 1999
Abstract This paper is a comparative study of the ritual of sacrifice in the highly stratified societies of Tonga and Tahiti in the period immediately following the commencement of European contact. It looks at the form of the ritual, the occasions on which the ritual was performed, and argues that although sacrifice was usually performed in order for ...
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