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@proceedings{1350941, author = {Maňo, Peter}, booktitle = {Doktorandská konference Sociologie a příbuzných společenských věd, Univerzita Karlova}, keywords = {Ritual; Religion; Costly signalling; Partner choice; Evolution; Ethnography; Experiment}, title = {Rituals as costly signals: Does ritual intensity affect participants‘ attractiveness? A field study from Mauritius}, year = {2016} }
TY - CONF ID - 1350941 AU - Maňo, Peter PY - 2016 TI - Rituals as costly signals: Does ritual intensity affect participants‘ attractiveness? A field study from Mauritius KW - Ritual KW - Religion KW - Costly signalling KW - Partner choice KW - Evolution KW - Ethnography KW - Experiment N2 - The general research question posed by many anthropologists studying rituals is “why people do it?” Evolutionary oriented researchers therefore focus on exploring the adaptive value of rituals, so whether they somehow contribute to an individual’s survival and reproduction. To address these questions, I found myself on the island of Mauritius, where I have spent almost two years doing fieldwork, especially on religious rituals. In my research I am applying a theoretical model from human behavioural ecology, which targets the measuring and recording of ritual investments in an individual’s lifetime and the variation of such investments within- and between groups. More specifically, I explore ritual investments through the lenses of the theory of costly signalling, that sees them as reliable indicators of individual’s qualities, which are selected for by his future cooperative partners.Methodologically, the model rests on the assumption of optimal decision making that maximizes fitness enhancing (adaptive) behaviours. ER -
MAŇO, Peter. Rituals as costly signals: Does ritual intensity affect participants‘ attractiveness? A field study from Mauritius. In \textit{Doktorandská konference Sociologie a příbuzných společenských věd, Univerzita Karlova}. 2016.
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