LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
In this chapter, we will discuss the following important topics.
- Sign and symbols
- Rituals
- Belief and practices
INTRODUCTION
Signs, symbols, rituals, beliefs and practices are concepts that are related to each other in some way or the other. In fact, all these words serve as an image or representation of something in the mind. According to Radcliffe-Brown’s definition “everything that has meaning is a symbol”. The meaning here is that which is expressed by the symbol, or what is meant by the symbol. Rites are those formal actions which are expressed by symbols. A ritual is a patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of ...
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