Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism 1993
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9780511896866.014
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The interactive basis of ritual effectiveness in a male initiation rite

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“…As I have shown elsewhere (Houseman 1984), the novices' passage through the ritual corresponds to a two-fold operation. First, through a series of severe, paradoxical ordeals during their hunting trip with their initiators, the novices' original identity as virtual men, deriving from their being born male and confirmed during the rite's initial phase, is ironically and violently denied.…”
Section: The Novices' Execution: a Case Of Ritual Dissimulationmentioning
confidence: 83%
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“…As I have shown elsewhere (Houseman 1984), the novices' passage through the ritual corresponds to a two-fold operation. First, through a series of severe, paradoxical ordeals during their hunting trip with their initiators, the novices' original identity as virtual men, deriving from their being born male and confirmed during the rite's initial phase, is ironically and violently denied.…”
Section: The Novices' Execution: a Case Of Ritual Dissimulationmentioning
confidence: 83%
“…To try to show this, I will consider a somewhat extreme case of a simulation performed by initiators in which no secrecy whatsoever is involved, taken this time from the so rite among the Beti of Southern Cameroon (cf. Houseman 1984Houseman , 1993Laburthe-Tolra 1985).…”
Section: The Novices' Execution: a Case Of Ritual Dissimulationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rituals are not only performed but also observed, and many rituals contain an elaborate sequencing of both positions (cf. Houseman 1993). Investigations into cognitive systems involved in both the execution and observance of ordinary actions are therefore of primary importance if we are to build a reliable model of the cognitive processes underlying ritual actions.…”
Section: Agency In Non-ritual Actionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Especificamente, os participantes se vêem pegos, ao mesmo tempo, em dois modos de dissimulação muito diferentes: em um, o sigilo é abertamente admitido (por exemplo, faz-se as mulheres conscientes do fato de não saberem o que há nas caixas); no outro, é sub-repticiamente ocultado (por exemplo, as mulheres permanecem não conscientes da homofonia et/est, bem como do fato de que os noviços, na verdade, não conhecem realmente o conteúdo das caixas). Como argumentei com respeito à iniciação em geral (Houseman 1993), é a articulação sistêmica desses dois modos contrários do sigilo que fornece o fundamento privilegiado para o que se pode chamar o "trabalho" ritual de O Vermelho e o Negro (Houseman e Severi 1998): de um lado, a designação de agências particulares (os noviços, o iniciador e os iniciados, mas também, potencialmente, as caixas, o cartão etc. ); de outro, a emergência de um idioma específico por meio do qual estas agências podem ser expressas (simbolismo).…”
Section: O Vermelho E O Negrounclassified
“…Houseman e Severi 1998;Houseman 1993;2000;2002). Nos termos desta abordagem, o ritual é visto como atuação [enactment] de relações, sejam elas relações entre participantes humanos ou, ainda -embutidas em uma rede de laços interpessoais -, relações com entidades outras, não humanas: espíritos, deuses, ancestrais, animais, objetos, fórmulas litúrgicas e assim por diante.…”
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