Interrituality as a Means to Perform the Art of Building New Rituals
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Abstract
If we do not consider religious rituals as given to us from the gods, but designed by humans at certain times and in certain contexts we might also track the art of designing and performing the human practice of rituals. Even if we agree that all rituals are taught and learned, they are not meant to be perceived as products of human imagination. The concept “ritual invention” could thus be seen as an oxymoron. My purpose with this article is to analyse how it is possible to simultaneously invent rituals and refer to them as “tradition”. In order to discuss ritual invention I will make use of Rappaport’s definition of rituals as “the performance of more or less invariant sequences of formal acts and utterances, not entirely encoded by the performers.” By introducing the concept of inter-rituality I will show how a skilful ritual leader manages to avoid confusion by recycling ritual acts that structure the performance into a “true event,” in this case the performance of a Kekunit, a god-parent ritual in a Mi’kmaq reserve in Nova Scotia, Canada. The ritual master’s skill in ritual creativity and design is important, and by using a well-known ritual “bank” to collect acts or performances from, he/she turns the performance into a less risky business.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it