Ritual can be rehabilitated in its own right by emphasizing what it has in common with play: the ludic evocation of a simultaneous shadow reality. What is more, ritual can be understood as an enjoyable form of playing with realities. More than a solemn occasion, useful because of its social and cultural functions, ritual is a festive enactment of a counterreality. Connectionist ideas on the parallel processing of schemas and repertoires lend themselves for mapping the properties of ritual in its own ludic right. The human mind allows for a rapid comparison by the parallel—and not serial or sequential— processing of alternative schemas for thought, action, and emotion. An ethnographic illustration is taken from a boys’ initiation ritual among the Wagenia (Congo).
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Enjoying an Emerging Alternative World
Ritual in Its Own Ludic Right
André Droogers
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2004
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- 138–154 (17 total)
Sartre on Mental Imagery
Noel N. Sauer
to the mind that are emerging in the debate—“connectionism and dynamical and embodied approaches to cognition,” for instance—the debate carries on under the same computer model or computational theory of mind: that is, under assorted versions of
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 53–79 (27 total)