Extreme Rituals as Social Technologies

We often think of pain as intrinsically bad, and the avoidance of pain is a fundamental evolutionary drive of all species. How can we then explain widespread cultural practices like certain rituals that involve the voluntary infliction of physical pain? In this paper, we argue that inflicting and ex...

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Authors: Fischer, Ronald (Author) ; Xygalatas, Dimitris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2014, Volume: 14, Issue: 5, Pages: 345-355
Further subjects:B Ritual pain suffering experimental anthropology evolution
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