Modelling Cultural Transmission of Rituals: An Agent-Based Model Contrasting Social Function and Cognitive Attraction
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Modelling Cultural Transmission of Rituals: An Agent-Based Model Contrasting Social Function and Cognitive Attraction
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What is the role of social function and the role of cognitive attraction as factors driving the cultural transmission of rituals? In our paper, we address this question with the method of agent-based modelling (ABM). Drawing on our historical work concerning the development of early Christian meals from ordinary Graeco-Roman banquets to goal-demoted magical practices, we introduce a model informed both by ancient historical context and recent experimental findings. We want to extend and combine results of current behavioral experiments exploring the calusal mechanisms of panhuman sociality and cognition with historical study of long-term cultural processes. In that respect, the ABM represents a valuable integrative tool. There is a broad evidence that participation in collective rituals promotes social cohesion among the participants. However, at least some aspects characterizing ritualized behavior do not contribute to this function.
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O - Miscellaneous
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AA - Philosophy and religion
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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2016
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů