Ritual - from Cultural Anthropology to Transactional Analysis

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Bringing Ritual to Mind Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Bringing Ritual toMind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation...

difficulties related to cultural anthropology managing in organizational behavior

it is tried, in this article to introduce the field of cultural anthropology, which is a decipline of social science and its contribution behavioral science, through: comparative studies of values and behaviors, mutual interactions of cultures in organizations, organizational culture and environment, and its application in managing organizational behavior. the difficulties of determination and ...

The cultural morphospace of ritual form

Ethnographic, historical, archaeological and experimental work suggests the existence of two basic clusters of ritual dynamics or ‘modes of religiosity’ — a low-frequency, high-arousal cluster linked to the formation of small cohesive communities (imagistic mode) and highfrequency, low-arousal cluster associated with larger, more centralized social morphology (doctrinal mode). Currently, howeve...

Human subjects protection and cultural anthropology.

c) Professor C and his students are frustrated. They are eager to begin their classroom project of ethnographically interviewing exotic dancers at the local nightclub, who are also students, on gender roles and sexuality. The results of the project will be term papers used for the students’ grades. But the IRB chair has advised them against presenting the project for approval. The chair said th...