5/25/2023 0 Comments The way of kings prime![]() ![]() Ruling classes use them to manage our moods, to encourage us to accept social hierarchies. Rituals are also things powerful people invent for us. Rituals aren’t simply reflections of what already is. ![]() “One of the big mistakes people make,” says Maya Mayblin, an anthropologist at Edinburgh University, “is that they think about rituals as simply a mirror to society, reflecting back at us what already is. Ritual isn’t the icing on society’s cake. Its function, they concluded, is “homeostatic” – to keep things the same as the world changes. In 2019, a multidisciplinary academic team studied ritual in various animals, including humans. ![]() Studies have found they can improve sport performance and even align people’s heartbeats.Īnd it’s not just human. In The Dawn of Everything, academics David Graeber and David Wengrow show that societies are shaped by rituals as well as material needs, from ancient Egyptians growing grain to leave bread for the dead to ancient Britons trekking to Stonehenge. Every society has greeting customs, death ceremonies, specific festivities in particular seasons. The Covid-19 public inquiry is a historic chance to find out what really happened. ![]()
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