December 16, 2014

Rituals As Social Glue: An Interview With Harvey Whitehouse

December 16, 2014/ ScienceSites

An interview with anthropologist Harvey Whitehouse about the role of rituals in the evolution and maintenance of social behaviour. For more information, visit http://theritualproject.org/ Recorded at the University of Oxford, December 2013.

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