RT Article
T1 Rituals in Weather Lands: Considerations about Ritual Fabrication of Meaning
JF Worldviews
VO 28
IS 1
SP 30
OP 45
A1 Bergmann, Sigurd 1956-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1882859162
AB Do rituals have a place in modern life? Are they ultimately pointless, or rather essential for social life? Can rituals themselves become specific places where meaning and belonging can emerge? Might they offer social skills to “make-oneself-at-home” in a world of constant homelessness and displacement? In the beginning two examples of the power and political significance of rituals are given: marathon runs in metropolitan surroundings, and the Swedish Public Health Agency’s press conferences in the pandemic emergency. Departing from our being-bodily-alive in unforeseeable “weather worlds” (Ingold 2007) the article then explores how rituals in different cultural contexts are “fabricating meaning” (Rappaport 1999) with regard to alternating weather. Examples from ritualized weather in the Fijis, Puebloan culture, and Kyrgyzstan will serve as places for perceiving atmospheres of the Sacred that can inspire a new path of making oneself at home in climate change.
K1 City
K1 Place
K1 Cosmos
K1 Weather
K1 Ritual
DO 10.1163/15685357-tat00010