The Basic Social Problem Is Reciprocal Violence

Reneja Rards: The idea is that the basic social problem is reciprocal violence. And so one of those is the scapegoat. So there's like someone that you take and sometimes it's the king who serves as scapegoat, who will get sacrificed or killed. But then there are all other things like a lot of like ritual purity stuff, right, of like how you have to have to deal with a woman who's menstruating or etc. A lot of the norms of ritual purity sacredness are really about control controlling violence. It involves ways of taking control of violence and segregating it.