TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Review Essay: Rituals and Knowledge Construction: Ethical Dilemmas on Creating Oppositions
JO  - Culture and psychology
A1  - Silva Guimarães, D.
SP  - 567
EP  - 576
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
N2  - What is knowledge construction for? Mesopotamian rituals were practiced in order to grasp the future and guide war strategies. Nowadays, scientific rules are developed to avoid mysticism—constructing more accurate laws to explain the reality. Both rituals and science were, and usually are, grounded in a conception that to know is to decipher the correct meaning behind the expressive relief of the world. Contemporary studies on anthropology have shown that the opposition between nature and culture is the basis of a number of problems in human sciences aiming to comprehend the intricate relation between body and violence and overcome ethical dilemmas.<p />
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SN  - 1354-067X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X09344884
ID  - ref1
ER  -