Edo Amin
Edo Amin is a communication arts professional and a former columnist in national print media. Following online social networks since their inception, his research interests and publication topics include social media, collective narratives in news and propaganda, populism, the Infodemic, visualization and IP. He's also a designer of infographics, presentations and explainer videos in http://reliable-productions.com
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is based on an analogy of ritual and language postulating a ‘deep structure’ or a ‘universal
grammar’ for rituals as presented by Frits Staal, Axel Michaels, and Naphtali Meshel.
Following E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley in their cognitive approach to ritual
competence and in identifying actions as building blocks in ritual structures, I propose an
analysis of ritual events as a category with distinctive semantic and syntactic properties
and within the framework of ritual communication and ritual competence. I extend Martina
Wiltschko’s universal spine hypothesis for linguistic categories to the language-ritual
analogy in the domains of semantics and syntax. The viability of this analytical framework
is demonstrated by categorizing touching events in rituals in shared festivals in Kerala. I
conclude the discussion by hypothesizing universal categories for ritual events and entities,
and universal structural patterns partially analogous (perhaps even homologous) to
categories and patterns used in Wiltschko’s universal spine hypothesis.
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is based on an analogy of ritual and language postulating a ‘deep structure’ or a ‘universal
grammar’ for rituals as presented by Frits Staal, Axel Michaels, and Naphtali Meshel.
Following E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley in their cognitive approach to ritual
competence and in identifying actions as building blocks in ritual structures, I propose an
analysis of ritual events as a category with distinctive semantic and syntactic properties
and within the framework of ritual communication and ritual competence. I extend Martina
Wiltschko’s universal spine hypothesis for linguistic categories to the language-ritual
analogy in the domains of semantics and syntax. The viability of this analytical framework
is demonstrated by categorizing touching events in rituals in shared festivals in Kerala. I
conclude the discussion by hypothesizing universal categories for ritual events and entities,
and universal structural patterns partially analogous (perhaps even homologous) to
categories and patterns used in Wiltschko’s universal spine hypothesis.