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Ritual Morphospace Revisited: The form, function, and factor structure of ritual practice
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Human rituals exhibit bewildering diversity, from the Mauritian Kavadi to Catholic communion. Is this diversity infinitely plastic or are there some general dimensions along which ritual features vary? We analysed two cross-cultural datasets, one drawn from the anthropological record, and another novel contemporary dataset to examine whether a consistent underlying set of latent dimensions in ritual structure and experiences were detected. First, we conducted a factor analysis on 651 rituals ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rstb.2019.0436
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- Publisher:
- The Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 375
- Issue:
- 1805
- Article number:
- 20190436
- Publication date:
- 2020-06-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-03-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- ISSN:
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0962-8436
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1095504
- Local pid:
- pubs:1095504
- Deposit date:
- 2020-03-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Kapitany et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version will be available from a forthcoming issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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