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FWIW, a lot of our structures are basically for rituals. Large stadiums are for spectators to observe the best football players as part of yearly ceremonial ga
by WhyNotHugo 5y ago
FWIW, a lot of our structures are basically for rituals.
Large stadiums are for spectators to observe the best football players as part of yearly ceremonial games.
Certain parks are for ceremonial gatherings on certain time of years, where we put traditional ritual ornaments (e.g.: christmas decoration).
It's just the OUR rituals have names and we don't think of them as rituals, but we have plenty of things that are ritualistic and ceremonial: the olypmics, new year, halloween, easter, friday drinks at the office, birthday parties, etc.
- mro_name 5y agoand most datacenters are. A lot of accounting is. PR mostly is.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoyes, giant blocks of silicon to divine the future
- varelse 5y agoIndeed: the Nacirema are a strange people. https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacir...
- manuel_w 5y agoThe linked document has 5 (or six?) pages, would you mind to provide a short summary what to find there?
- washadjeffmad 5y agoIt's a very short text given to Anthro 1101 classes recounting objective observations about the titular 'daily rituals of the Nacirema', who by their descriptions must be a distant and alien people. At risk of spoiling, Nacirema backwards is 'American'.