Explaining religion without explaining it away : trust, truth, and the evolution of cooperation in Roy A. Rappaport´s "the obvious aspects of ritual".

Moving beyond the ecological functionalism of Pigs for the Ancestors, Roy Rappaport's subsequent work on ritual explored how the Òobvious aspectsÓ of ritual's formalism and the need to perform it literally embody in its performers expressions of sanctity and truth that counter the threats of lying a...

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Autor principal: Watanabe, John M.
Formato: Analitica de revista
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Arlington American Antropological Association 1999
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