Abstract

Social ritual in a Mexican village is described as structural hierarchy with a common semantic base. Stretches of rule‐governed behavior are generated through a series of metaphoric transformations of physiological process. The concordant structure that is so‐derived constitutes a semantic network that provides and reinforces cultural equilibrium and shared ideology.

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