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  title info:
    title: Explaining religion without explaining it away
    sub title: trust, truth, and the evolution of cooperation in Roy A. Rappaport´s "the obvious aspects of ritual"
  name:
    name part: Watanabe, John M.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Arlington
    publisher: American Antropological Association
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: continuing
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
  abstract: 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 and alternative inherent in symbolic communication. He recognized that symbolic meaning and truth presuppose social cooperation and trust between individuals, and ritual serves uniquely to reaffirm this mutuality at the level of both individual behavior and conventional meaning. Through a study of male greetings among olive baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis), this paper illustrates how ritual in Rappaport's sense may indeed intensify cooperation in socially complex but nonlinguistic contexts by establishing a behaviorally transparent means of certifying otherwise opaque individual intentions. Thus, not only may ritual sanctify symbolic communication, but it also may have played a crucial role in its evolution
  note: En: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 101 No. 1(marzo 1999), pp. 98-112. ISSN 00027294
  subject:
    topic: DESARROLLO SOCIAL
  subject:
    topic: CULTURA
    topic: EVOLUCION
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: SOCIEDAD
  related item:
    title info:
      title: American anthropologist
    identifier: 024522
  record info:
    record content source: UAHC_CL
    record creation date: 010801
    record change date: 20170810120305.0
    record identifier: 024532