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An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems
Hidden Brain
Why Do We Do Rituals?
Demetrius Zicalatas is an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut. He says rituals exact significant costs in time, money and pain from those who practice them. Rituals seem pointless but they're experienced by participants as something truly vital, he says.
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