Ancient Art and Ritual - Jane Harrison
Assigned Reading
Maggie McBrady
A point of Harrison's that I really enjoyed was the need for emotion to be present during ritual. Harrison says that ritual's desire to "recreate emotion not to reproduce an object". As a member of the Greek community on campus ritual is something that is supposed to be held near and dear. However I feel that most people often leave out the importance of emotion during ritual and have fallen into the trap of simple mimicry. Without emotion ritual becomes a dull lifeless action of people just acting with no real concept of what they're actually doing. I think mimicry is the greatest insult to ritual.
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