Twisted Saga of “World’s Oldest Ritual”
In 2006, University of Oslo archaeologist Sheila Coulson gave an open lecture about her work at a small cave in the Tsodilo Hills of northern Botswana. Although her lecture focused on Middle Stone Age...
View ArticleBeheading the “Snake God” at Rhino Cave
Indiana Jones would have loved it: 65,000 years ago, stone age hunters in Africa gathered at night in a hidden cave to worship the giant rock snake that seemed to move in the flickering firelight and...
View ArticleTheory of Ritualized Behavior
In my anthropology of religion course, we are now looking at ritual. While preparing for class, I reviewed a recent synopsis of ritual theory which is so good that I have decided to post the entire...
View ArticleRepetition & Ritual
Repeat after me or do as I do, again and again and again. This is mimesis and it depends on repetition. In Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (1993),...
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