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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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of cognition and culture
Année: 2014, Volume: 14, Numéro: 5, Pages: 345-355 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Rituel
pain
suffering
experimental anthropology
evolution
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