The Ritualization of Moving and Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12911557 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald L Grimes (Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-98 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time and Mind (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-696X • E-ISSN: 1751-6978 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2752/175169712x13182754067467 |
| OpenAlex | W1986125510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article sketches two examples of the ritualization and globalization of knowledge. The first, culminating in New Mexico's Santa Fe Fiesta, traces the deployment of massive military and political forces, the invasion of a continent, and, over centuries, the colonizing of a territory by means of plays and liturgies as well as guns and horses. The other example covers a few years in the life of a single scholar crossing east over one ocean while his daughter prepares to cross west over another ocean. The examples are on radically different scales of importance, and the kinds of ritual they illustrate range from explicit plays and liturgies to tacit ritualization and dramatization processes. These two examples ground four claims: (1) humans live, move, and have their being in dramatic performances and ritual enactments; (2) the knowledge that informs these performances and enactments travels around the globe not only in books and bytes but in human bodies and minds; (3) in being shuttled through occupied spaces, performances and enactments can be transmogrified into commodities that are exported, imported, or exchanged; (4) explicit rites are underwritten by the tacit dramatization and ritualization processes that pervade all human interactions, ranging from violent conquests to polite international exchanges among scholars
Aesthetics · Art · Dramatization · Globe · Literature · Ritualization · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |