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@proceedings{2221118,
author = {Kundt, Radek and Lang, Martin},
booktitle = {The European Association for the Study of Religions Conference, 27 June-1 July 2022, University College Cork, Ireland},
keywords = {ritual; complex signaling system; evolution; cooperation},
language = {eng},
title = {On the origin of collective ritual},
url = {https://www.easr2022.org/},
year = {2022}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 2221118
AU - Kundt, Radek - Lang, Martin
PY - 2022
TI - On the origin of collective ritual
KW - ritual
KW - complex signaling system
KW - evolution
KW - cooperation
UR - https://www.easr2022.org/
N2 - Treating collective ritual as a complex signaling system facilitating mutualistic cooperation, we propose an evolutionary model of its origin in the hominin lineage. For our model, we first synthesize the literature dealing with hunter-gatherer ethnography and hominin archaeology and identify similarity signals, coalitionary signals, and signals of commitment to collective action as the main building blocks of the signaling system. As a next step, we turn to primatology and paleoanthropology to investigate these signals in non-human primates and past hominins. Adding the proximate level to our analysis, we pinpoint distinctive neurocognitive mechanisms scaffolding the three types of ritual signals and track down the mechanisms` presence. Finally, we connect this evidence with the prevalent socio-ecological selective pressures for cooperative communication and suggest that by the arrival of H. Sapiens collective ritual already constituted crucial adaptation overcoming collective action problems.
ER -
KUNDT, Radek and Martin LANG. On the origin of collective ritual. In \textit{The European Association for the Study of Religions Conference, 27 June-1 July 2022, University College Cork, Ireland}. 2022.
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