1. Ethnography and Rituals
... . Because it is highly formalized, ritual restricts debate or contestation, and there is certainty to the ways in which people construct ritual across different social and cultural contexts. Similarly, Kelly and Kaplan (1990) argue that the study of ritual has to run to history and raise fundamental questions for Anthropology. In part, many rituals are indigenously represented as ancient and ... unchanging; rituals carry a millstone of connections to traditions. Accounts vary as to the purpose, function and meaning of ritual. Kelly and Kaplan (1990: 120) state that a ritual is habitually...
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